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Secrets of Healing the Heart Discovered in Zebrafish Studies – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Kazu Kikuchi, PhD, and his team at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney have discovered a critical new genetic switch that could help human hearts…
Zebrafish can heal their damaged hearts. Humans hearts retain scars of earlier injuries.
In a new article published in the journal Science, titled “Krüppel-like factor 1 is a core cardiomyogenic trigger in zebrafish,” scientists from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney report finding a new genetic switch that could help damaged human heart muscles repair after a cardiac arrest.
Kazu Kikuchi, PhD, who led this research, says, “Our research has identified a secret switch that allows…
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