Spider proteins offer new insight into human heart conditions
Proteins found in the muscles of tarantulas are helping scientists to understand how genetic changes can lead to serious heart conditions.
Jun 14, 2017
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Proteins found in the muscles of tarantulas are helping scientists to understand how genetic changes can lead to serious heart conditions.
Jun 14, 2017
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The human heart is a fine-tuned engine - more advanced than the finest Ferrari despite being simply designed by Mother Nature. It's so carefully constructed that if it gets off kilter in the slightest way, it can throw the ...
Feb 20, 2015
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Artificial muscles and self-propelled goo may be the stuff of Hollywood fiction, but for UC Santa Barbara scientists Omar Saleh and Deborah Fygenson, the reality of it is not that far away. By blending their areas of expertise, ...
Oct 23, 2012
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Humans produce billions of clot-forming platelets every day, but there are times when there aren't enough of them, such as with certain diseases or during invasive surgery. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have ...
Jul 13, 2011
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Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are reporting a possible new blood test to help diagnose heart attacks.
Sep 20, 2011
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Atrial fibrillation is a common abnormal heart rhythm. It is treated either with medications or by applying heat or extreme cold to destroy small specific tissue areas in the atrium. This inevitably causes small wounds. A ...
Jul 24, 2019
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When a young athlete suddenly dies of a heart attack, chances are high that they suffer from familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Itis the most common genetic heart disease in the US and affects an estimated 1 in 500 ...
Oct 16, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say a regulatory protein found in skeletal muscle fiber may play an important role in the body's fight or flight response when encountering stressful situations.
Apr 23, 2021
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Florida State University researchers led by physics doctoral student Campion Loong have achieved significant benchmarks in a study of the human cardiac protein alpha-tropomyosin, which is an essential, molecular-level component ...
Aug 31, 2012
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is best known for revealing itself in one certain way: as an unexpected, fatal heart attack during strenuous exercise. But researchers suspect as many as 300 mutations can individually cause enlargement ...
Apr 4, 2019
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