The zebrafish is a good research stand-in for its fellow vertebrate, the human, because the two have many parts in common ... is clear—literally. Because embryos are transparent and develop ...

The ZINC's primary activities would be to microinject RNA and DNA oligonucleotides or interference RNA into zebrafish embryos. The IACUC questioned how ZINC would handle certain situations ...

Zebrafish fertilize their eggs externally and rapidly develop transparent embryos that provide a unique porthole into developing systems. 2 To capture the once-in-a-lifetime event of the first ...

The development steps that take one month for a human embryo are gone through by a zebrafish embryo in one day – an enormous time saving for scientists. The splendid colour of the adult fish starts to ...

We address this fundamental question in the context of axial extension, which elongates embryos along the head-to-tail axis and ensures closure of the developing neural tube. Using zebrafish embryos ...

Medaka fish is the second vertebrate species after zebrafish employed for a mass screening ... mechanisms to establish brain regions in the early embryo which later develop into functional brain parts ...

Here, Dalangin et al. report the engineering of far-red fluorescent Ca2+ indicators and demonstrate their utility for monitoring of all-optical cardiac pacing in embryonic zebrafish.