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The Zebrafish Genetic and Phenotyping Core provides expertise and equipment to support your experiments with zebrafish as an in vivo model. The Core can generate zebrafish with mutations in specific ...
Our zebrafish labs are heavily involved in education of students and engagement of public. For example, we actively recruit and involve undergraduate students in our research. We encourage students to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1 To investigate the effects of polystyrene nanoparticles in zebrafish, the researchers exposed fully hatched zebrafish, at 72 hours post-fertilization, to polystyrene nanoparticle solutions. The ...
We are a group of Purdue faculty using zebrafish in our research. Our research interest covers a wide variety of topics, including cancer, development, disease modeling, drug discovery, immunology, ...
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 ...
Our lab uses the skeleton of the zebrafish as a model to understand how developmental elements are normally integrated with one another during development. A major goal of our research is to ...