Zebrafish: Practically People, Transforming How We Study Disease is a new film that provides an overview of the benefits of Zebrafish as a biomedical research model, in an easy-to-understand, visually-stunning documentary.
Though viewed by many in the biomedical community as relatively new research model, Zebrafish have been helping scientists effectively investigate and fight human disease for over 30 years. The scientists who work with Zebrafish are passionate about its benefits, and have had amazing success using Zebrafish to develop and test therapies for some of the most prevalent and devastating human diseases. Zebrafish: Practically People shares the areas where biomedical research using Zebrafish is making a difference, from cancer to Alzheimer’s to spectrum disorders such as autism. Zebrafish are a low-cost vertebrate model organism with some very unique attributes, including the fact that Zebrafish share almost all of the same organs as humans, are cost-effective, and reproduce in a transparent embryo which develops outside the womb – a feature that provides unprecedented scientific opportunity. The increasingly-recognized value of the Zebrafish model is demonstrated by the fact that today even scientists on NASA’s International Space Station work with them to study gravity effects. Zebrafish: Practically People concludes with a call for additional funding to support the critical work of scientists using the Zebrafish model.
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