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 rare glimpse into the beating heart of a zebrafish offers a view of how blood flows into and out of its heart. Zebrafish have a heart and a circulatory system similar to that of humans, but with ...

After a heart attack, the human heart loses millions of muscle cells that cannot regrow. This often leads to heart failure, where the heart struggles to pump blood effectively. Unlike humans, ...