New Ways To Regulate Genes, Reduce Heart Damage Identified

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 06/23/2008 - 22:45

Biophysics researchers are trying to reduce post-heart attack damage by studying the way cells die in the heart -- a process controlled by transcription factors.


 

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