R ita Fior, leader of the Cancer Development and Innate Immune Evasion Group at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has been studying for several years the power of zebrafish "avatars," or zAvatars ...

The trial, which is being held in Portugal by the Champalimaud Foundation, will see drugs that have been tested previously in zebrafish embryos implanted with the patients’ cancer cells.

Studying simple organisms reveals how cancerous cells move differently from healthy ones, opening new doors to diagnosis and ...

Researchers have identified a key enzyme driving forms of Parkinson’s, and have shown how blocking it restores normal function in animal and cell models – offering a promising new drug target for the ...

Cancer modeling by Transgene Electroporation in Adult Zebrafish (TEAZ). Disease Models and Mechanisms, 2018 Sep 27;11(9) Pavlova NN, Hui S, Ghergurovich JM, Fan J, Intlekofer AM, White RM, Rabinowitz ...

Weekly breeding ensures the embryo supply. So far zebrafish studies have yielded insights into cancer, diabetes, muscle diseases, and more. Elizabeth Burke, a researcher at the National Institutes ...

We use different techniques in our research projects. Yet, the zebrafish model joins us together. Our research interest covers a wide variety of topics, including cancer, development, disease modeling ...

We are a group of Purdue faculty using zebrafish in our research. Our research interest covers a wide variety of topics, including cancer, development, disease modeling, drug discovery, immunology, ...

1 To investigate the effects of polystyrene nanoparticles in zebrafish, the researchers exposed fully hatched zebrafish, at 72 hours post-fertilization, to polystyrene nanoparticle solutions. The ...