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 ...

Opioid addiction in the United States is at crisis levels, with drug overdoses now the leading cause of death for people under the age of 50. Treating those addictions, however, is tough; scientists ...

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.

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 ...

A popular aquarium fish may hold answers to how tumors form in a childhood cancer. A popular aquarium fish may hold answers to how tumors form in a childhood cancer. Muscle precursor cells called ...

Ottawa, August 5, 2020 - Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists alike. Researchers have now engineered an unusual change in them that has echoes of Jurassic Park ...