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Nicolas Hubacz: Watching a Heart Build Its Network
Jun 7, 2026, 05:45

Nicolas Hubacz: Watching a Heart Build Its Network

Nicolas Hubacz, Research and Clinical Products Business Development Manager at Magstim, shared a post on LinkedIn:

”Watching a Heart Build Its Network

The heart doesn’t work alone. Every beat depends on an intricate network of blood vessels delivering oxygen, nutrients, and signaling molecules throughout the body.

In this remarkable zebrafish imaging dataset, researchers captured both the beating heart and the surrounding vascular system in motion, revealing how closely these systems are connected during development.

Using fluorescently labeled endothelial cells, scientists were able to visualize the entire vascular network in extraordinary detail.

The imaging system captured 80 volumetric scans every second, allowing researchers to observe rapid cardiac dynamics in real time.

Heart valve movements can be clearly seen opening and closing, providing a unique window into functional cardiac development.

Technologies like this are helping researchers move beyond static images and study living biological systems as they function, beat, grow, and adapt.

The ability to simultaneously observe structure and motion at this scale is transforming how we study cardiovascular development and disease.

Video created by Terra M. Kuhn, Ph.D. at ZEISS using the LSM Lightfield 4D system. Sample courtesy of Professor Didier Stainier and the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany.”

Proceed to the video attached to the post.

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