Zebrafish share a high genomic similarity with humans ... such as cardiovascular issues, weakened immunity, bone loss, muscle atrophy, and hormona imbalances. Understanding these effects is a key ...

The decades-old anesthetic ketamine could be a game changer for treating severe depression, but there are still many questions about how the drug works, including exactly how it affects the brain ...

The Zebrafish Genetic and Phenotyping Core provides expertise and equipment to support your experiments with zebrafish as an in vivo model. The Core can generate zebrafish with mutations in specific ...

Researchers in University College Dublin (UCD) have discovered that a mutation in a gene called emc1 causes major vision problems in zebrafish. Zebrafish with this mutation had poorly developed ...

Using a virtual reality setup, the team fixed the ketamine-treated larval zebrafish fish in place and showed it different visual patterns. The first 10 seconds show the fish at rest. When the fish ...