R ita Fior, leader of the Cancer Development and Innate Immune Evasion Group at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has been studying for several years the power of zebrafish "avatars," or zAvatars ...

Studying simple organisms reveals how cancerous cells move differently from healthy ones, opening new doors to diagnosis and ...

Because embryos are transparent and develop outside the mother’s body, scientists can manipulate genes to model ... So far zebrafish studies have yielded insights into cancer, diabetes, muscle ...

We study the chemical and physical mechanisms by which intact tissues detect wounds to initiate healing, inflammation, regeneration, and cancer. We address these mechanisms by quantitative imaging in ...