When early cartographers undertook perilous expeditions to map unknown corners of the world with sextants, compasses, and hand-drawn diagrams, it's unlikely they imagined that someday anyone with an ...

Researchers have published an atlas of zebrafish development, detailing the gene expression programs that are activated within nearly every cell type during the first five days of development, a ...

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Fluorescence imaging of a pre-gastrula zebrafish embryo, showing DNA (gray) and cell structure (magenta). The video moves through different depths of the embryo, showing chromosome formation, ...

The environment experienced by young zebrafish influences both the shape and electrical activity of the neurons in the eye, ...