A researcher at the University of Cincinnati is working to better understand infertility in humans with the help of thousands ...

A common lab fish is helping autism research take a more targeted turn The fish are only a few days old, barely beyond the ...

In recent decades, the zebrafish has become one of the most valuable model organisms in scientific research. For a variety of ...

Zebrafish have emerged as a vital vertebrate model system that bridges developmental biology and behavioural neuroscience. Their genetic tractability, optical transparency during early development and ...

Using zebrafish "Avatars", an animal model developed by the Cancer Development and Innate Immune Evasion lab at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), led by Rita Fior, Mayra Martínez-López – a former PhD ...

Nager syndrome (NS) is an extremely rare disease that causes developmental problems and anomalies in facial bone structures and limbs. While the causative gene is known, its underlying mechanisms ...

The zebrafish is a widely-used model organism. In this week’s podcast, Brant Weinstein, Ph.D., a senior investigator at the NIH, explains in detail what makes zebrafish so useful in life science ...

Dr. Jason Berman looking at a zebrafish model on the computer screen. New research shows that pre-clinical zebrafish models are an effective tool to help guide clinical decision-making in real time ...

Given that the developmental processes of zebrafish facial structure is similar to human, they can be leveraged as a low-cost and readily available animal model for exploring the underlying molecular ...