{"id":172928,"date":"2023-09-27T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-study-captures-the-very-moment-a-heart-starts-beating-in-an-animal-embryo"},"modified":"2023-09-27T20:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T01:27:28","slug":"new-study-captures-the-very-moment-a-heart-starts-beating-in-an-animal-embryo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-study-captures-the-very-moment-a-heart-starts-beating-in-an-animal-embryo","title":{"rendered":"New Study Captures The Very Moment a Heart Starts Beating in an Animal Embryo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-captures-the-very-moment-a-heart-starts-beating-in-an-animal-embryo3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have captured the fleeting moment when a heart starts beating, a feat made all the more remarkable when you consider the relative brevity of a zebrafish\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>In a tight window about 20 hours into zebrafish development, the embryos\u2019 developing hearts jumped into action, emerging as one from an ensemble of single cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like somebody had flipped on a switch,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1002398\">says<\/a> Harvard University biophysicist Adam Cohen, senior author of the new study, which imaged zebrafish embryos snug in custom-made agarose molds to capture this once-in-a-lifetime event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have captured the fleeting moment when a heart starts beating, a feat made all the more remarkable when you consider the relative brevity of a zebrafish\u2019s life. In a tight window about 20 hours into zebrafish development, the embryos\u2019 developing hearts jumped into action, emerging as one from an ensemble of single cells. \u201cIt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}