How to Use zebra fish in a Sentence

zebra fish

noun
  • Jain tackled the problem by looking at how bone grows in zebra fish fins.
    — Erica Westly, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012
  • Ruptures, tears, and cracks are known to shape zebra fish nostrils, hydra mouths, fruit fly legs, and whole flatworms.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • What’s more, zebra fish larvae are transparent, so the researchers could peer directly into their brains.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The zebra fish eggs, along with water samples collected at three different stages, were brought back to Earth for study.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • To test that hypothesis, the researchers sped up the zebra fishes’ heart rate; more fractures formed in the cardiac jelly.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Five zebra fish per liter of tank water can be collectively euthanized by electric shock.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The team hypothesized that a healthy gut microbiome somehow enables microglia to flourish in zebra fish brains.
    — Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Morais cautioned, however, that neither zebra fish nor mice are perfect analogues for human beings — or for each other.
    — Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The experiments, in mice, zebra fish, and fruit flies, reveal that the large brain cells called astrocytes serve as supervisors.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Swedish scientists have created bioelectronics in live zebra fish and leeches with this new technique.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Those upstream circuits are better understood in other organisms, like zebra fish.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
  • All the while, the researchers monitored neurons and astrocytes in the zebra fish’s brain using advanced whole-brain imaging techniques.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Mosca notes the same strategies used in this study will likely help illuminate brain-behavior links in other model animals such as zebra fish or fruit flies.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In experiments, the scientists created gel electrodes in the brain, heart, and tail fins of living zebra fish with no signs of tissue damage.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Some zebra fish eyes contained concentrations of cocaine that were 1,000 times higher than levels that would be lethal to humans.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • But Danionella isn't nearly as well understood as other lab models, like zebra fish, which are larger and only transparent in their larval stage.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 June 2026
  • In 2025, China is sending six other zebra fish to orbit as scientists expand the research.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • In any case, their zebra fish work, which is undergoing peer review, shows that a fundamental feature of an essential organ is shaped by mechanical forces ahead of genetics.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Some research suggests that astrocytes’ ability to accumulate information over time (as happened with the zebra fish’s swim attempts) extends to the sleep-wake cycle.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zhang, of Purdue, studies bioelectrical signaling in zebra fish, which develop striking extra-long tails when a certain ion channel is mutated.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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