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Neuroscience PhD student in the Ross/Koerber Lab at Pitt

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1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that.

What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward.

(D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)

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There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is β€œreducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research

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