Of the many qualities that make the zebrafish a model organism, the fact that it shares 70% of the genes humans have makes it an ideal candidate for developmental biology research.
Zebrafish melanocytes cause diseases similar to those in people when they don’t work properly. Studying how they regenerate after injury could lead to new treatments for hair color loss and vitiligo.
Understanding where and how memories are formed could lead to more ways to treat conditions like PTSD and addiction.
You share the same drug habits, the same age-related memory problems and are similarly impatient when forced to wait for food.
Species can evolve to tolerate higher temperatures – but there's a ceiling beyond which adaptation isn't possible.
Recent studies using CRISPR to fast-track genetic studies into human disease genes appear flawed.
We wanted to find out which biological phenomena are crucial for pattern formation and which are just incidental. These sorts of questions can be answered with mathematical modelling.
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