A rapid life cycle is also a major advantage for researchers who study the development of an organism from the ovum to the adult animal. The development steps that take one month for a human embryo ...

UB researcher Viviana Monje and colleagues have been awarded a $1.2 million grant to study how the popular aquarium fish ...

Zebrafish share up to 70% of genes with humans, which are easy to modify in the laboratory, and they are transparent, so their muscles are easily observed under a microscope.