New research shows that the anesthetic ketamine keeps fish from giving up — and the way it works may help figure out how it works in humans and lead to better medications for depression. A tiny fish ...

Biotech entrepreneurs on Friday unveiled plans to market the nation’s first genetically engineered pet -- a tropical zebra fish infused with the gene of a sea anemone that makes it glow fluorescent ...

When most people clean a fish, they throw away the guts, but a team of biologists would rather take a close look at them. To understand the roles of the many microbes that live naturally within ...

(Feb. 7, 2008) — Zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and are good models for human biology and disease. Now, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have created a zebrafish that is ...

They're about an inch long, head to tail. They feast on flakes. To anyone uninitiated in the intricate hierarchy of fish, they're likely to be mistaken for lowly guppies. But because they also emit a ...

Researchers at NYU Polytechnic have achieved a major breakthrough in underwater robotics: They have proven that a robotic replica of something that will eat you can be as terrifying as the real thing.

Scientists have discovered particular neurons in the brain that monitor whether predictions made by fish actually come true. By making use of a new virtual reality-outfitted aquarium where brain ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the post-genomic world, the lowly zebrafish may be king. Scientists at Purdue University have developed a technique that allows zebrafish to pass genetic modifications to its ...