http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers demonstrate today that 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish and that 84 per cent of genes known to be associated with human disease have a zebrafish counterpart. Their study highlights the importance of zebrafish as a model organism for human disease research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-zebrafish-genome-yields-strong-comparisons.html Genetics Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:00:01 EST news285416110 Research at the University of Edinburgh tracked electrical signals in the part of the brain linked to spatial awareness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-rhythms-brain.html Neuroscience Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:01:00 EST news277038053 Caenorhabditis elegans, with just 302 neurons, has long been considered an ideal model system for the study of the nervous system. New research, however, is suggesting that the worms' "simple" nervous system may be much more complex than originally thought. In a new study of worm locomotion, researchers show that a single type of motor neuron harbors an entire sensorimotor loop. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cell-sensory-motor-output-worm.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:00:28 EST news272714199 In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-controversial-bird-flu_1.html Medical research Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:43:48 EST news244266218 (Medical Xpress) -- A University of Michigan biologist and his colleagues have found that the strategies used by the tiny C. elegans roundworm to control its motions are remarkably similar to those used by the human brain to command movement of eyes, arms and legs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tiny-worms-human-like-neural-circuits.html Neuroscience Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:24:20 EST news240240251