So University of Utah biologists, led by assistant professor Jamie Gagnon, tackled the problem by comparing two fish species: zebrafish, which can regenerate its heart, and medaka, which cannot.

Scientists at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in heart regeneration therapy. By utilizing a protein found in zebrafish, known as Hmga1 ...

Nanoplastics in water hindered oxygen transport in zebrafish, underscoring their toxic impact on aquatic health.

A new fully automated in vivo screening system (AISS) has been developed to transform drug evaluation by enabling rapid, ...

The zebrafish is a good research stand-in for its fellow vertebrate, the human, because the two have many parts in common: brain, heart, liver, kidneys. And genome sequencing has shown that 84 ...

Heart valve development: endothelial cell signaling and differentiation. Circ. Res. 95(5), 459–470 (2004). Article Google Scholar Bassett, D. & Currie, P.D. Identification of a zebrafish ...

Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known ...

Preclinical drug evaluation, especially for cardiotoxicity, is a critical stage in the drug development process.

The preclinical evaluation of drug-induced cardiotoxicity is an important stage in the drug development process; however, ...

A new fully automated in vivo screening system (AISS) has been developed to transform drug evaluation by enabling rapid, precise, and non-invasive ...

Zebrafish are unassuming and undemanding. Almost every child knows that – at least any child that has kept fish in an aquarium. Since the beginning of the 20th century, these fish have been one of the ...