This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For a creature that’s less than one and a half inches long, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) looms large in biomedical ...

WMU graduate student Darcy Trimpe has already benefited from the new confocal microscope in conducting her research on the neurogenesis and cell death in the olfactory bulb of the adult zebrafish.

Zebrafish, photographed with confocal microscope. The brain region that controls eye movement is structurally similar in fish and mammals, but the zebrafish system contains only 500 neurons ...