Nager syndrome, or NS, is a rare genetic disease that affects the development of the face and limbs, usually causing ...

A disease model is an animal or cells displaying all ... Methylene Blue is an antifungal additive widely used in zebrafish embryo medium. At recommended concentrations, it exerts acute metabolic ...

Sheffield now houses over 760 genetically engineered strains, including visually detectable transgenic lines. Further validation of these fish as a model for human disease is the 70 per cent ...

Generation, characterization, and therapeutic drug screening of novel zebrafish models of human neuromuscular diseases- The lab uses the zebrafish model as a powerful tool for both genetic discovery ...

scientists can manipulate genes to model human diseases and directly observe disease changes in live animals—something not possible in another common lab animal, mice. Though mature zebrafish ...

Research interests Diseases of immunity cause much illness in the developed world – on ... I have set up a model system in which the genes controlling regulation of innate immune cell function can be ...

Professor Breandan Kennedy and his team are planning further research with this new zebrafish model to understand EMC-related human disease and help discover therapeutic approaches. Professor ...

The zebrafish that accompanied the Chinese astronauts on last year's Shenzhou XVIII mission set a record for being the longest surviving fish in space, according to the professor researching them.

“It shows that this kind of research with model systems ... involved in the study. Disease genes are usually discovered in humans and then studied in animal models, but this study did the opposite.

Zebrafish have been integral to biomedical research, providing a cost-effective and genetically similar model for human ...

she worked with him to map a gene that eventually was linked to myofibrillar myopathies (MFM), a group of diseases resulting in progressive muscle weakness that is characterized by protein clumping ...