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Seeing the future: Zebrafish regenerates fully functional photoreceptor cells and restores its vision

Blinding diseases lead to permanent vision loss by damaging photoreceptor cells, which humans cannot naturally regenerate. While researchers are working…

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Zebrafish use surprising strategy to regrow spinal cord

Zebrafish are members of a rarefied group of vertebrates capable of fully healing a severed spinal cord. A clear understanding…

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Zebrafish reveal how bioelectricity shapes muscle development

A question left unanswered in a biologist’s lab notebook for 40 years has finally been explained, thanks to a little…

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Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged heart tissue, while other fish species cannot?

A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals, including some fish and amphibians,…

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