Zebrafish

Zebrafish Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston announced in December the results from an early-phase clinical trial of a drug that boosts the number of cord-blood stem cells in patients who received stem-cell transplants.

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Zebrafish Do It—Just Too Little Amy Dockser Marcus 2012

Children's Hospital Boston Zebrafish species shares two-thirds of its genes with humans and is therefore useful in drug research and development.

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Zebrafish Do It—Just Too Little Amy Dockser Marcus 2012

Zebrafish, also known as zebra danio, have become popular research subjects because they are cheaper to breed than mice and they have a backbone that better represents the human nervous system than fruit flies.

Fish Suffer From Insomnia, Scientists Reported on Monday. | Impact Lab 2007

Zebrafish with the mutant gene slept 30 percent less than fish without the mutation.

Fish Suffer From Insomnia, Scientists Reported on Monday. | Impact Lab 2007

~ Zebrafish to shed light on human mitochondrial diseases -- "Zebrafish can now be used to study COX deficiencies in humans, a discovery that gives scientists an unprecedented window to view the earliest stages of mitochondrial impairments that lead to potentially fatal metabolic disorders, according to researchers at the University of Oregon."

Speedlinking 9/13/07 William Harryman 2007

Recently the complete genome of the puffer fish and a draft of the Zebrafish genome have become available, and guess what?

What is this thing called Science? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

George Streisinger on Zebrafish, and at the side explored whether zebrafish could eventually be established as a system for the genetic analysis of vertebrate development.

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - Autobiography 1996

Zebrafish eggs are fertilized synchronously, they develop rapidly outside the maternal organism, and, most importantly, they are initially completely transparent.

Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes 1995

Zebrafish are so commonly used in laboratories because they are genetically similar to humans, sharing much of the same anatomy and biochemistry.

Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

Zebrafish larvae, used in human medical research (Photo: Adam Amsterdam, MIT)

Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010