The study, conducted on zebrafish, is published in Nature Communications.

The study was conducted on zebrafish, an animal model that exhibits strong similarities to human heart rate and overall cardiac function.

In zebrafish studies, it was shown to stop the formation of new blood vessels that tumours need in order to grow.

Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections formed by a network of neurons in the brainstem guide the fishes' gaze.

To understand the contributions from circuit anatomy, Dr. Aksay and his collaborators looked to larval zebrafish.