WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the post-genomic world, the lowly zebrafish may be king. Scientists at Purdue University have developed a technique that allows zebrafish to pass genetic modifications to its ...
Age-related macular degeneration affects 11 million people in the U.S., and that number is expected to nearly double by 2050. Now researchers are looking into how a unique characteristic of a ...
Zebrafish swim in a container at a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital. The lab has about 300,00 zebrafish at the location which are used in stem cell research. A Pittsburgh-based startup is ...
The zebra danio fish is also known as the zebrafish or striped danio. They are tropical, freshwater fish from Southern Asia. Scientists often use zebra danios for research, and they have become ...
HERSHEY, PA-An inch-long tropical fish will enjoy improved global exposure thanks to a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources-National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been a favorite model of developmental biologists and geneticists, but only recently have investigators begun to appreciate its usefulness in behavior genetics. Papers ...
The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's ...
Researchers have published an atlas of zebrafish development, detailing the gene expression programs that are activated within nearly every cell type during the first five days of development, a ...
James Amatruda, MD, PhD, never set out to become a fish farmer. “My goal is not to cure a fish; it’s to cure a child,” Amatruda, head of basic and translational research for the Cancer and Blood ...
Over the past few months at least half of the world's population has been affected by some form of lockdown due to COVID-19, and many of us are experiencing the impact of social isolation. Loneliness ...
When scientific acronyms no longer need to mean anything at all, you get ZFIN (for Zebrafish Model Organism Database?). No, no, I kid—ZFIN stands for ZebraFish Information Network, and for that I ...