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Zebrafish share skin-deep similarities with people, making them helpful models to study skin conditions like vitiligo and melanoma

  • Written by Craig Ceol, Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Zebrafish share skin-deep similarities with people, making them helpful models to study skin conditions like vitiligo and melanomaThe melanocytes in zebrafish stripes share many similarities to those in people.Dan Olsen/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Melanocytes are a small subset of epidermal cells that play an outsize role in protecting your skin from the damaging effects of sun exposure. They do this by synthesizing melanins, which are pigments sent to other skin cells to...

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