Welcome

Welcome to the Fish for Science website. We’d like to introduce you to our favourite model organism, the zebrafish. Not sure what a model organism is, or come to that, what a zebrafish is? Well this is the place to find out. 

On this website you can learn about why zebrafish can help us understand human diseases and how to develop treatments for them.  We'll show you why we use genetically modified zebrafish that have fluorescent cells and organs for our essential research into human health and disease.

Understanding how human bodies work and what causes human disease is the key to future medical breakthroughs. At the MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics (CDBG) at the University of Sheffield, biologists and hospital doctors have teamed up to use zebrafish embryos to learn more about human disease.   Our hope is to create new diagnostic tests and discover new treatments for disease.