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

Yet, following this humble beginning, why has the zebrafish developed into one of the most popular model organisms for research? The pretty stripes have nothing to do with it. Instead, a combination ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our group employed a zebrafish model to unfold the pathogenesis of this ... He further explains, "Unlike cancer or diabetes, ...

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 ...