By studying the inner ears of zebrafish and green anole lizards—both capable of regenerating sensory cells—they compared their DNA control elements, called “enhancers,” to those of mice ...

Researchers used powerful technology to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which genes are active.

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 ...

Adgrg6 is a human disease gene, and the zebrafish protein has roles both in the inner ear and in peripheral myelination. We are using the zebrafish embryo as a screening platform to identify small ...

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 ...

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 ...

They took enhancers from human ear cells and inserted them into zebrafish DNA alongside a gene for a glowing protein. The results were striking: the human ear enhancers caused the zebrafish’s ...