• Question: what do you look for in the haar

    Asked by crash to Fiona on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Fiona Hatch

      Fiona Hatch answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I look at how the heart beats. Your heart starts beating before you’re born. It is the first thing that develops when you’re in your mother’s womb. And it continues to beat all the way through your life.

      In total it can beat over 2.7 billion times (2,700,000,000). I look at how that happens and what might be changing as you get older. So I use an animal model to look at their hearts and I watch them beat under a microscope – I have a video of this on my profile.

      My aim is to find out what goes wrong with the heart when you get older and why does it stop beating.

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