Image Credit: COXEM Co. Ltd. The zebrafish has become an essential model organism in life sciences, particularly in genetic and biomedical research. Its unique advantages, including a rapid ...

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 ...

Zebrafish lacking a functional muscle clock showed signs of premature aging at two years. They were shorter, weighed less, swam less frequently and at slower speeds.

The zebrafish has emerged as an important model system with which to investigate cancer, particularly for validating genomics data and for undertaking screens for oncogenes and drivers of tumour ...

The zebrafish, a small tropical freshwater fish in the minnow family, has become the animal model of choice for research on a range of neurological disorders in humans.

Zebrafish spend record time alive aboard China's space station Researchers study related impacts of fish that survived 43 days in orbit ...