Dr Kate Weeks

@k8weeks.bsky.social

Researcher at the University of Melbourne investigating the molecular basis for heart disease.

Dr Zijing Zhou’s drive to understand the fundamental biological processes at work within the heart has led him to study ion channels that may be the key to managing not only cardiac diseases, but also osteoporosis, obesity and inflammatory diseases: www.victorchang.edu....

Star Scientist – Dr Zijing Zhou - Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Dr Zijing Zhou’s PIEZO ion channel research may be the key to managing not only cardiac diseases, but osteoporosis, obesity and inflammatory diseases.

victorchang.edu.au

Did you know heart muscle cells can have multiple nuclei? (See the pic on my profile for an example!) Within each nucleus, there can also be multiple sets of chromosomes (polyploidy). 🧬🧬🧬🧬 This new paper in @jmccardiology.bsky.social describes a new method for assessing ploidy in cardiomyocytes. 🔬

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology@jmccardiology.bsky.social · last yr.

Work in our April issue offers a detailed cardioFISH protocol for #cardiomyocyte nuclear ploidy assessment. Available open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.yj...

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