A researcher at the University of Cincinnati is working to better understand infertility in humans with the help of thousands ...

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

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

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

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature explored the effects of giving psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, to zebrafish. Interest has developed in recent ...

One of the most popular animal models in research is the Zebrafish, a tropical fish which is native to the rice paddies of Asia. Complex ethical concerns surrounding human testing have resulted in the ...

Age-related macular degeneration affects 11 million people in the U.S., and that number is expected to nearly double by 2050. Now researchers are looking into how a unique characteristic of a ...

Professor Bruce Draper uses zebrafish as a model to study development. Work from his lab in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences shows how certain genes are linked to sex change in fish and ...