Sunday 13 July 2025 | ![]() |
Events for day: Wednesday 07 May 2025 |
14:00 - 15:00 Weekly Seminar Zebrafish as an Animal Model for Biomedical Research School BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a powerful vertebrate model organism in genetics, drug discovery, developmental biology and regenerative studies. zebrafish has become an ideal model for high-throughput screening systems because of their high fecundity, transparency, external development, and short generation times, additionally, ease of housing and maintaining large numbers in captive. For these reasons, zebrafish have been recognized as a unique model of different human diseases, such as Alzheimer s disease, diabetes, muscular dystrophy and cancer. Zebrafish has many conserved disease proteins with humans. So, the drugs used for humans oft ... |