Neuronal degeneration leading to visual impairment or blindness remains a critical challenge in human health. Unlike humans, ...

Also known as danios, zebrafish are a popular choice for aquarium owners. They have been instrumental in neurodegenerative disease research for many years because they have a very similar genome ...

In the longest presidential address to Congress in modern U.S. history, Trump spoke in celebratory mode, barely addressed inflation and devoted only a few minutes of his speech to foreign policy ...

And genome sequencing has shown that 84 percent of the genes that cause disease in humans are also found in zebrafish. Since University of Queensland cell biologist Ben Hogan began studying ...

Disease genes are usually discovered in humans and then studied in animal models, but this study did the opposite. “It’s an elegant example of ‘reverse evolutionary genetics.’” Kuwada’s team bred a ...

Approximately 70 percent of zebrafish genes are also present in a similar form in humans. Over 80 percent of genes that are known to trigger disease in humans are also present in this fish. The ...

Zebrafish (Danio rerio ... making it attractive to study vertebrate development, physiology and disease.