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...gentle-Americana Buddhism made me feel as if that was good. He knew that the only reassurance in the face of the Sendakian horrors of childhood--the uncertainty, the lack of control--is acceptance. His neighborhood wasn't a utopia--he lived alone in a small apartment with a fish tank--but a community where every type of person was nice to him because he accepted them...
...zebrafish for a day in a normal tank, followed by a day in a tank with a cocaine-soaked piece of filter paper dangling at one end—a “zebrafish crackhouse,” the scientist quips. The third day, Dowling found that most fish would nearly immediately return to the end of the tank which previously housed the cocaine-soaked paper...
...some of the fish seemed to not respond appropriately and didn’t return to this end of the tank. Dowling says he wondered whether the fish just didn’t remember the cocaine correctly. He theorized that the defect might be a result of mutations in genes affecting signaling between the retina and the brain...
...many reasons, the match between Dowling’s research and the zebrafish has proved one made in biological heaven. Dowling is quick to note the varied attributes which make the organism ideal for such experiments. The fish are very small and can thus be raised in large numbers; in Dowling’s small facility, he can keep 30,000 fish at a time. The fish’s fast generation time also proves helpful in developmental studies; by the time a fish is just five days old, one can measure its visual function very effectively by using...
Though the zebrafish lacks some more complex features present in mammals, Downling says the fish will serve his research purposes well for the future...