A decade ago, when news broke that zebra mussels had found their way to Cass Lake, I was dismayed but not surprised. Since escaping from the ballast of an ocean-going vessel in Lake Superior sometime ...

VIB researchers at the Catholic University of Leuven have shown for the first time that new blood vessels do not grow in random directions, but that they are guided by specific signal molecules. This ...

Kennedie Bailey celebrated her 11th birthday in May with a sleepover, but she can’t remember much about the details because, shortly after, she was shocked to learn that she had a rare cancer.

A study found that invasive zebra mussels significantly alter aquatic ecosystems, and are associated with elevated mercury concentrations in fish. Mercury, a potent neurotoxin, poses a serious threat ...

Boston, MA - The stripy, inch-long fish gliding through the living-room fishbowl seems an unlikely contributor to the scientific pursuit of cardiac regeneration, but researchers believe the zebra fish ...

ROME, N.Y. -- The recent discovery of tiny, invasive zebra mussels earlier this month at the state’s Rome Fish Hatchery in Oneida County has created a giant headache for the state Department of ...

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 ...

Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish can perform simple addition and subtraction involving numbers between 1 and 5. Several studies have shown that fish can tell the difference between higher and lower ...

(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 ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Every zebra fish begins life as a transparent embryo. Almost all of them end up with stripes. Now, researchers know why. Scientists at Ohio State University developed a mathematical ...

The human eye is a limited organ. The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see is about 0.0035 percent of the total light in the universe. Without any aid, a normal human eye with 20/20 ...