Can zebrafish help find autism treatments? Scientists used pharmaco-behavioral profiling to identify FDA-approved drugs, like ...

In recent decades, the zebrafish has become one of the most valuable model organisms in scientific research. For a variety of reasons, including their genetic similarities to humans, these tiny ...

Researchers at Yale University say they have found a 44-cent-a-pill drug that could treat autistic behaviors, and it's ...

Light behaves differently underwater. It shifts with depth, bends through murky currents, and separates into distinct ...

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body ...

For decades, biologists knew that fish and other non-mammalian vertebrates possessed photosensitive pineal organs, but direct ...

Researchers identified the tegmentum in the midbrain as an ‘integration center’ of fish. The area receives visual information ...

Using zebrafish, researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) have identified the tegmentum region in the fish ...

The zebrafish is an important biomedical research organism. In most research, zebrafish are removed from their home tank and subsequently their phenotype is measured. The method of handling the fish, ...

A midbrain region in fish combines light signals from the eyes and the pineal organ, a light-sensing structure often called the 'third eye.' ...