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

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 ...

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 and functional analysis of ...

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

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

Researchers from Fudan University and Southwest University published data from a study that detailed the development of a novel vertebrate model suitable for high-throughput screening of potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Research interests Diseases of immunity cause much illness in the ... controlling regulation of innate immune cell function can be identified. The model I have chosen is the Zebrafish, which is both ...

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 ...