Comment on: ‘Homozygous knockout of the piezo1 gene in the zebrafish is not associated with anemia’

We read with interest the recent letter by Shmuckler et al. ‘Homozygous knockout of the piezo1 gene in the zebrafish is not associated with anemia’ published in Haematologica.[1][1] In their letter the authors describe the characterization of a zebrafish piezo1 knockout (KO) line generated using