zebrafish

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) By combining the tools of medicinal chemistry and zebrafish biology, a team of Vanderbilt investigators has identified compounds that may offer therapeutic leads for bone-related diseases and cancer.The findings, reported in ACS Chemical Biology, support using zebrafish as a novel platform for drug development.

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The zebrafish, a translucent fish often used as a model of human development and disease, offers unique advantages for studying the cause, growth, and spread of tumors using strategies and methods presented in the current cancer biology special issue of Zebrafish, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

(University of Michigan) Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts.

Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can regrow fins.