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A 232-year history of innovation

in science and clinical practice
– still making history.

Established in 1791, the RVC is the UK’s longest-standing
veterinary school – with a proud heritage of innovation
in science, clinical practice and education.

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One major use of zebrafish is to increase our understanding of diseases
and provide disease models for therapeutic discovery. The RVC is able to use
the zebrafish model as a substantive body of work shows that developmental,
homeostatic and metabolic processes are highly conserved between
vertebrates. Thus, data derived from our models can be extrapolated to Printed on wood free
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