Preventing heart cells from turning to bone

12 marzo 2015

Human cells have been used to discover how blood flow in the heart protects against the hardening of valves in cardiovascular disease. What’s more, they’ve identified a potential way to correct this process when it goes wrong by flipping the switch on just a handful of genes. These findings may have implications for related conditions, like hardening of the arteries, which causes heart attacks and stroke.
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