Sentences with phrase «live zebrafish»
Project BioEYES, based at Carnegie's Department of Embryology in Baltimore, MD, (www.bioeyes.org) uses live zebrafish to teach basic scientific principles, animal development, and genetics to underrepresented students, while training teachers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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Farber and Shuda are recognized for their creation of an outreach program called BioEYES, which provides K — 12 students with hands - on biology experience using live zebrafish.
In the Finkbeiner laboratory, Linsley uses time - lapse imaging of neurons in culture, within organotypic mouse brain slices, and within live zebrafish to uncover the mechanisms in neurodegeneration that lead to neuronal death.
By observing whole - brain activity in live zebrafish, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have visualized for the first time how information stored as long - term memory in the cerebral cortex is processed to guide behavioral choices.
The researchers placed the robot in a shared tank with shoals of live zebrafish, aiming to determine if the fish would perceive the robot as a predator, and whether visual cues from the robot could be used to modulate the fishes» social behavior and activity.
Building on traditional SIM technology, the iSIM allows real - time, 3 - D super resolution imaging of small, rapidly moving structures — such as individual blood cells moving through a live zebrafish embryo.
The study imaged live zebrafish over time to track the development of melanoma.
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Photo of a living Brainbow zebrafish, taken by Zachary Tobias (a research technician in Weissman - Unni's lab), showing a brightly labeled neuron with its cell body (white) at bottom.
To solve such a complex puzzle, Jasmine McCammon, a postdoctoral researcher in Sive's lab, enlisted the zebrafish as a «living test tube.»
«The research carried out in zebrafish unit of the University of Helsinki showed that in addition to cell cultures, these optogenetic tools worked also in living tissues,» says Academy Research Fellow Jari Rossi.
Using live imaging in zebrafish to track oligodendrocytes in real time, researchers reporting in the June 24 issue of the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell discovered that individual oligodendrocytes coat neurons with myelin for only five hours after they are born.
An experimental study with size - selectively harvested zebrafish that began in 2006 at the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany reveals that size - selective harvesting causes changes in key life - history traits, leading to low maximum body size and poor reproductive output.
In lower animals, such as zebrafish, the heart retains that ability throughout their lives: up to 20 percent of a zebrafish's heart can be damaged or removed, and within days the heart's capacity has been fully restored.
At Baltimore's Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle, third - grade students who were given male and female zebrafish one day this fall were amazed, just 24 hours later, to see embryos form, and thrilled to observe the growing life forms under a microscope.
Rieger used zebrafish larvae to model peripheral neuropathy because the embryos develop rapidly and because the larval fish are translucent, making them ideal for studying the progression of nerve degeneration in live animals.
Zebrafish is a an outstanding model organism to investigate these questions due to its advantages in live imaging and its improving ease of genetic manipulations.
The reasons for its appeal are many, but none rival the fact that the crystal - clear zebrafish embryo offers a view of burgeoning life that no other vertebrate model can.
Further studies have corroborated the evidence that zebrafish shoaling preference is affected by visual cues incorporated by both live [72] and robotic [35], [37], [73] stimuli.
Specifically, the following predictions are expected to be met: i) fish attraction toward the robotic fish should vary as the visual cues offered by the robotic fish are varied, in agreement with similar observations for zebrafish in [35]--[37]; ii) fish attraction should vary as a function of the robotic fish tail - beat frequency, as suggested in [60] and observed in [20]; and iii) the highest attraction should be reached when both visual and flow cues from the live fish are simultaneously integrated in the robotic fish prototype.
Given that Dazl is present in bony fish such as zebrafish and medaka [52], [53], we then asked if Dazl is present in the cartilaginous fish, phylogenetically the oldest group of living jawed vertebrates.
Smaller, cheaper and easier to breed than mice, zebrafish in their juvenile phase can actually live in the tiny amount of liquid — ranging from tens of nanoliters to several milliliters — that fits in the wells of a standard 96 - well plate used to screen drug compounds.