Currently encompasses many diseases including, but not limited to:
Cancer
Diabetes
Addiction
Alzheimer’s
Heart disease
Parkinson’s
Epilepsy
Autism
Rare genetic diseases like Prader-Willi Syndrome
Environmental toxin effects on human neurological development
Has yielded:
Discovery of previously-unknown genes involved in rare forms of muscular dystrophy.
New understandings of pathways involved in human embryo development and heart physiology.
Drugs being tested as future cancer therapies.
Real-time data to inform cancer therapy selection for individual treatments.
Centers conducting research and development include:
Georgetown University Medical Center, Harvard University Medical Center, National Institutes of Health, University of Utah, University of Oregon.
NASA’s International Space Station (yes, there are alive and happy Zebrafish in outer space, helping us understand the effects of gravity on muscle mass).
Elementary, middle, and high schools around the country.
If you would like to make a donation, please go to zebrafishfilm.org.