In recent years, many research studies have been conducted to assess the therapeutic use of nanomedicines. This is due to their enhanced stability and solubility, ability to overcome transport ...

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 ...

The zebrafish is a widely-used model organism. In this week’s podcast, Brant Weinstein, Ph.D., a senior investigator at the NIH, explains in detail what makes zebrafish so useful in life science ...

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have emerged as a premier vertebrate model system for investigating fundamental processes in developmental biology and neurobiology. Their optical transparency during embryonic ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a computational imaging system that borrows techniques from astronomy to reconstruct 4D videos of freely moving small model organisms, like ...

When scientific acronyms no longer need to mean anything at all, you get ZFIN (for Zebrafish Model Organism Database?). No, no, I kid—ZFIN stands for ZebraFish Information Network, and for that I ...

Aïcha Sow, a PhD student in virology and immunology at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), along with Professors Laurent Chatel-Chaix and Kessen Patten, developed a zebrafish model ...