Microtest Laboratories (Agawam, MA) is using a faster and more sensitive method to screen for toxicity in materials used in medical devices—zebrafish embryos. Zebrafish are highly susceptible to ...

A common lab fish is helping autism research take a more targeted turn The fish are only a few days old, barely beyond the ...

This news isn’t hard to swallow. Researchers at Yale University have identified a low-cost prescription drug already on the ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown that zebrafish can provide genetic baz1b clues to the evolution of social behaviours in humans and domesticated species. The research, ...

A new fully automated in vivo screening system (AISS) has been developed to transform drug evaluation by enabling rapid, precise, and non-invasive multi-organ imaging in zebrafish. Integrating cutting ...

A group of scientists, which included researchers from the Ural Federal University (UrFU), have developed and successfully tested a new model of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in zebrafish. The use of ...

In recent decades, the zebrafish has become one of the most valuable model organisms in scientific research. For a variety of ...

Can zebrafish help find autism treatments? Scientists used pharmaco-behavioral profiling to identify FDA-approved drugs, like ...

Studies show for the first time how functional tests can clarify genetic false alarms and protect families from irreversible therapies and substantial costs. A positive newborn screening for spinal ...

Scientists have relied on animal models as an alternative to testing on human tissues and cells for decades. But not just any organism can adequately model how human cells behave. Researchers take ...