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First-of-its-kind technology repairs and regenerates heart muscle cells

First-of-its-kind technology repairs and regenerates heart muscle cells

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Researchers at the University of Houston are reporting a first-of-its-kind technology that not only repairs heart muscle cells in mice but also regenerates them following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction as its medically known. Published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Agingthe groundbreaking finding has the potential to become a powerful clinical strategy for treating …

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First-of-its-kind technology repairs and regenerates heart muscle cells

Advanced microscopy techniques offer detailed insight into inner workings of cells’ powerhouses

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Using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Sweden have visualized in unprecedented detail the machinery that the cells’ powerhouses, the mitochondria, use to form their proteins. The results, which are published in nature, raise hopes of more specific antibiotics and new cancer drugs in the future. The mitochondria are the …

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