A transparent zebrafish will allow scientists to study the spread of cancer and other biological phenomena. Image courtesy of Richard White Zebrafish embryos are a staple of developmental biology: the ...

Scientists have created a transparent fish that lets them see through its skin to watch the progression of disease in real time. The fish, a breed Zebrafish named Casper, has granted researchers ...

Zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and good models for human diseases. Now, researchers have bred a zebrafish that is transparent throughout its life, allowing researchers to directly view ...

A tiny fish may show how stem cells change into organs, tissues. June 3, 2010 — -- Scientists are a step closer to unraveling one of the greatest mysteries of the biological world: how stem cells ...

They could be the tiniest heroes in the war against cancer. Transparent fish with human-like genes are allowing scientists to solve the mystery of how cancer grows and spreads. Tanks at Harvard ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The natural transparency of young zebrafish has allowed neuroscientists to use light, much like we use a remote control, to turn on and off neurons that may be responsible for how we ...

This spring, White and his colleagues announced that they had bred a new, see-through, zebrafish. The animals’ transparent skin gives scientists a clear view of developmental processes, such as tumor ...

Scientists have spotted a rare, see-through fish and a giant sea spider in waters off of Alaska. The transparent fish is known as a blotched snailfish and its technical name is Crystallichthys ...

“I was pretty surprised to see a little eye on it,” she wrote on Facebook. “Honestly how is it see-through, where’s it brain, or anything inside for that matter,” another commented on the post. ”I’m ...

It lives in underwater caves thousands of feet beneath San Antonio, Texas, has no eyes and transparent skin. The Widemouth Blindcat - also called the Satan fish - has baffled experts for decades, and ...

A Tasmanian woman has shared her incredible find on the sand at Bruny Island, mistaking an almost completely transparent fish for a piece of seaweed. “I was pretty surprised to see a little eye on it, ...