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.

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 ...

Zebrafish, with their transparent bodies ... the system allows for high-resolution imaging of organs such as the heart, brain, and liver. The computer-vision-based control ensures precise ...