The zebrafish is a good research stand-in for ... Because embryos are transparent and develop outside the mother’s body, scientists can manipulate genes to model human diseases and directly ...

Some have already succeeded: in 2007, Richard White, a biologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, used careful breeding techniques to create a transparent adult zebrafish named ...

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Larval zebrafish are an invaluable tool for neuroscientists, who use the tiny, transparent fish to probe how the brain controls behavior, but it's been difficult for scientists to study learning ...

Rainbow trout develop liver cancer in response to environmental toxins. And zebrafish—small, striped fish indigenous to the rivers of India and a widely used model organism—are susceptible to both ...

1.41 billion base pairs The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a widely used genetic, developmental, and disease model organism because of the near-effortlessness of imaging transparent zebrafish embryos and ...

A new fully automated in vivo screening system (AISS) has been developed to transform drug evaluation by enabling rapid, ...

The splendid colour of the adult fish starts to appear from the third week; the zebrafish larvae, in contrast, are almost completely transparent. Using microscopes, researchers can therefore look into ...

3. Impact of any genetic mutation or drug treatment is easy to see The transparent nature of zebrafish embryos and larvae allows for non-invasive observation of genetic mutations or drug effects, ...

Preclinical drug evaluation, especially for cardiotoxicity, is a critical stage in the drug development process.

The small size and optical transparence of zebrafish embryos and larvae greatly facilitate modern intravital microscopic phenotyping of these experimentally tractable laboratory animals.