A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature explored the effects of giving psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, to zebrafish. Interest has developed in recent ...

The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is now home to a new zebrafish research facility. Researchers will use ...

Melanocytes are a small subset of epidermal cells that play an outsize role in protecting your skin from the damaging effects of sun exposure. They do this by synthesizing melanins, which are pigments ...

The zebrafish brain, though simpler than its human counterpart, is a complex network of neurons that engage in a ceaseless dance of electrical activity. What if this neural ballet could reveal the ...

A team of Israeli researchers has found that one of the reasons that sleep could be so important to animals — including humans — is that it takes neurons 'offline' so DNA damage accumulated during ...

In science, how you ask a question is often as important as what you ask. Philipp Niethammer, PhD The lab of cell biologist Philipp Niethammer, PhD, of the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan ...

Iowa State researchers have received a $2 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the production of blood stem cells in zebrafish. Researchers hope it’s a step toward ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 30, 2023) Exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate (GLY) has the potential to induce heart damage (cardiotoxicity) through the aging ...

Emerging contaminants from rubber tires N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and its oxidation product 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ)-are raising new red flags for aquatic ecosystems. A ...