The top image shows fluorescently labeled cells in the spinal cord of a zebrafish recovering one week after an injury, and the bottom image shows recovery four weeks after an injury.

Zebrafish can regain full movement within four weeks of injury. For people, damage to the spinal cord is permanent and results in paralysis. Scientists at Edinburgh University's Centre for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. CHINA DAILY The ...

Our lab is interested in deciphering how different muscles are coordinated for diverse movements, how this coordination is refined over development and how this coordination is disrupted in motor ...

With over 70% genetic similarity to humans, zebrafish are widely used in developmental biology and disease research. Scientists call them “mice in water,” Wang explained. Unlike mice, however, ...