The zebrafish has gained increasing recognition as a valuable vertebrate model in biomedical research. Its powerful genetic toolkit, coupled with ...

The initial popularity of the zebrafish and a related teloest ... The rat is also an increasingly relevant disease model. Genetic studies in the rat continue to make significant contributions ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When studying diseases or genes related to diseases, using animal models is often the best approach. The zebrafish is one ...

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 ...

The genome similarity between zebrafish and humans is as high as 80 percent, making them an important model for research into human diseases, he said. More than 500 laboratories across the country ...

“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.

A small tropical freshwater fish measuring 3 to 5 centimeters, the zebrafish — so named because of its blue-striped body, which gives it the appearance of a galloping zebra when swimming in schools — ...

Current treatments alleviate skin symptoms but fail to address liver disease, leaving a critical ... high-throughput drug screening using a zebrafish model to identify compounds that reduce ...