California found itself in the national spotlight earlier this month when it became the only state to ban the sale of a genetically engineered pet fish called the GloFish. As a member of the state ...

Biotech entrepreneurs on Friday unveiled plans to market the nation’s first genetically engineered pet -- a tropical zebra fish infused with the gene of a sea anemone that makes it glow fluorescent ...

Zygogen, LLC.,l has announced a non-exclusive, United Kingdom sub-license agreement with DanioLabs for the right to use Zygogen's Z-Tag(SM) technology for internal drug screening. DanioLabs, based in ...

Thousands of stripey aquarium fish are helping Australian researchers learn more about a degenerative disease of the human nervous system. The zebra fish have been genetically modified to carry a ...

Say goodbye to Birkenstock sandals and woolly jumpers -- tomorrow's eco-warrior will like nothing better than swimming naked in defense of cleaner oceans. That, at least, is the hope of researchers in ...

A genetically altered zebra fish containing an estrogen inducible promoter has enabled researchers to find the hazardous health effects of environmental chemicals in the body. University of Exeter A ...

In this issue Amanuma et al. 1 report a system for using transgenic zebra fish (Brachydanio rerio) to test water environments for potential mutagens. Their system uses a shuttle plasmid that can be ...

The zebrafish (Danio rerio), a species popular among aquarium lovers and widely used as a model for scientific research, is native to freshwater habitats in Asia. In Brazil it is named after the state ...

A new compound dubbed a "molecular tweezers" has halted Parkinson's disease in its tracks in a promising test of the drug on zebra fish. UCLA researchers have developed their compound to combat the ...

This short video shows the beating of the green-fluorescent heart of a GFP-transgenic zebrafish. The video was shot using the NIGHTSEA Stereo Microscope Fluorescence Adapter.

Vocal impairments resulting from neurological disease are notoriously difficult to recapitulate in animal models, owing to differences in vocal circuitry between animals and humans. However, a team in ...