This often leads to heart failure, where the heart struggles to pump blood effectively. Unlike humans, zebrafish grow new heart muscle cells: they have a regenerative capacity. When a zebrafish ...

Heart attacks are dangerous not just because of the initial event, but the long-term damage afterwards. Now scientists have ...

By utilizing a protein found in zebrafish, known as Hmga1, they successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts, paving the way for potential treatments to prevent heart failure in humans. After a ...

Zebrafish are one of several model organisms ... This could eventually lead to therapies to prevent heart failure in humans,” said Jeroen Bakkers, PhD, group leader at the Hubrecht Institute ...

This often leads to heart failure, where the heart struggles to pump blood effectively. Unlike humans, zebrafish grow new heart muscle cells: they have a regenerative capacity. When a zebrafish ...

heart, liver, kidneys. And genome sequencing has shown that 84 percent of the genes that cause disease in humans are also found in zebrafish. Since University of Queensland cell biologist Ben ...

To help answer these questions, researchers are turning to an unlikely animal: tiny, days-old zebrafish. The millimeters-long, translucent zebrafish may not get depressed exactly like humans do ...

At the heart of the project lies the ... mRNA and protein distribution in the adult zebrafish brain and to the characterisation of the phenotype of NGF-positive cells. She currently works at QMUL, ...