They’ve also used zebrafish to investigate the causes of rare diseases and to find potential new drugs. And that’s just some of the many things they’ve been doing with this handy fish.

Using the zebrafish model to develop new treatments for a variety of deadly diseases A different kind of fish story Dr Alvin Ma found zebrafish research of autophagy-related processes in the past ...

Advances in optimisation of the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 in zebrafish disease models offer a new level of accuracy and specificity previously out of reach for research into human genetic ...

Highlights: NUZ-001 and its active metabolite NUZ-001 Sulfone demonstrated significant neuroprotective effects in a zebrafish model of Huntington's disease; Treatment prevented ha ...

Sharma et al. demonstrated a new analytical method to study memory training efficacy in zebrafish by means of an integrated ...

Professor Sun Yonghua (front) shows zebrafish disease models to members of his research team in the laboratory at the China Zebrafish Resource Center in Wuhan, Hubei province.

While this small, striped fish is commonly found in home aquariums, zebrafish are also a valuable animal model for human disease due to fast growth, large clutch sizes and easy genetic manipulation.

Although much has been learned about the molecular basis of these diseases, they are still incurable. To expedite discovery of new drugs for these diseases, our group studies zebrafish ...

West Australian researchers have made a breakthrough medical discovery in the fight against a rare genetic muscle disorder.

As a vertebrate, the zebrafish possesses many genes that perform the same or similar functions in mammals and therefore also in humans. Approximately 70 percent of zebrafish genes are also present in ...

The genetic disease is XMEA, ... While this small, striped fish is commonly found in home aquariums, zebrafish also are a valuable animal model for human disease due to fast growth, ...

Evolution is usually equated with advancement, but the most useful biological innovations aren’t always found in the “highest” organisms. Zebrafish, for example, can continually generate new neurons ...