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 ...

While some vertebrates, including species of salamanders, axolotls, and zebrafish, can naturally regenerate heart tissue throughout adulthood, in mammals, including humans, this cardiac ...

Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult macrophages.

Researchers from the Bakkers group at the Hubrecht Institute have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in ...

the heart of a zebrafish (like the one shown here) has a unique ability to regenerate damaged or destroyed heart tissue, which makes the zebrafish a great organism in which to study potential ...

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 ...

“Our findings revealed that the gene for the Hmga1 protein is active during heart regeneration in zebrafish but not in mice. This showed us that Hmga1 plays a key role in heart repair.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid B.S., Universidad de Málaga Millions of patients die annually from diseases that affect organs with limited regenerative capacity such as the heart. In contrast, ...