A zebrafish larva sits in agarose gel to stabilize it on a glass microscope slide. A microelectrode, which looks like a needle point, measures electricity in its brain, telling scientists how often ...

A new advance in animal husbandry involving a popular aquarium fish should speed the pace of discovery in laboratory studies ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the post-genomic world, the lowly zebrafish may be king. Scientists at Purdue University have developed a technique that allows zebrafish to pass genetic modifications to its ...

A biomedical research program at Oregon State University has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to modernize their lab. Zebrafish at Oregon State University's Sinnhuber Aquatic ...

MDI Bio Lab scientists discovered how zebrafish solve a basic challenge in regenerative biology—insights in their newest publication in the journal Development could one day guide human repair. When ...

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been a favorite model of developmental biologists and geneticists, but only recently have investigators begun to appreciate its usefulness in behavior genetics. Papers ...

An animal's ability to adapt to its environment is clearly key to its survival, but does that ability come at a physiological cost? A clever experiment comparing laboratory zebrafish with their wild ...

Zebrafish in the pet trade are asymptomatic carriers of previously undescribed microbes, including a novel virus that causes hemorrhaging in infected laboratory fish, researchers report. Zebrafish in ...