How to Use zebra fish in a Sentence

zebra fish

noun
  • The data from the zebra fish and the models of temperature, neuronal noise and arousal matched perfectly.
    Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Scientists have also found something similar in two reptile species and hints of a state like it in zebra fish.
    Betsy Mason, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In contrast, zebra fish’s temperature varies quite a bit.
    Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • As the zebra fish developed, the scientists measured how the shape of the droplet changed, allowing them to determine the strength of the forces the cells actively applied against one another.
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2018
  • This year’s winning image of a juvenile zebra fish was captured as part of research by a team at the National Institutes of Health.
    Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2020
  • What’s more, zebra fish larvae are transparent, so the researchers could peer directly into their brains.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Making motorneurons takes less than a day in zebra fish, about four days in mice, and two weeks in humans—the timing differs rather dramatically.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Medway Public Library director Margaret Perkins said there were two zebra danios — also known as zebra fish — in the tank at the library.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The team hypothesized that a healthy gut microbiome somehow enables microglia to flourish in zebra fish brains.
    Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Corey also spoke about a number of promising areas of research, such as a process of injecting zebra fish with cancer cells that can be traced through the fish over time, giving doctors a better idea of how cancer cells move inside a human body.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Campàs and his colleagues measured all three properties in different regions of the developing zebra fish embryo, from head to tail, and showed that the way the cells get packed and change their behavior also fits the theory of jamming.
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2018
  • But in two studies, Mueller estimated that salamanders clear out their inserted transposons several times more slowly than zebra fish or humans.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • And the researchers eventually hope to be able to monitor mutation rates real time in entire organisms, such as zebra fish, to see whether different tissues have different mutation rates.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In subsequent, unpublished work, the compound stopped the growth of rapidly regenerating tissue in zebra fish, suggesting an indirect role in inhibiting some fast-growing tumors.
    Peter Andrey Smith, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • Giorgio Vallortigara, a neuroscientist at the University of Trento, and his colleagues have seen indications that zebra fish have an area in their brains that corresponds to numerosity.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Fraser and his colleagues saw an opportunity to get around that anatomical limitation and learn more about associative memory formation by using zebra fish.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022

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