A study led by Prof. Liu Feng from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a crucial role ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For a creature that’s less than one and a half inches long, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) looms large in biomedical ...

A new fully automated in vivo screening system (AISS) has been developed to transform drug evaluation by enabling rapid, precise, and non-invasive multi-organ imaging in zebrafish. Integrating cutting ...

Preclinical drug evaluation, especially for cardiotoxicity, is a critical stage in the drug development process. Traditional methods, often relying on in vitro assays or manual manipulation of ...

The preclinical evaluation of drug-induced cardiotoxicity is an important stage in the drug development process; however, ...

Zebrafish are unassuming and undemanding. Almost every child knows that – at least any child that has kept fish in an aquarium. Since the beginning of the 20th century, these fish have been one of the ...

As a vertebrate, the zebrafish possesses many genes that perform the same or similar functions in mammals and therefore also in humans. Approximately 70 percent of zebrafish genes are also present in ...

EraCal Therapeutics is developing a novel oral-active anti-obesity drug, Era-379, identified using the company’s state-of-the-art, zebrafish-based platform technology. EraCal is raising a series ...