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Saving hearts after heart attacks: Overexpression of a gene enhances repair of dead muscle

by Traci Bratton

October 18, 2017
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University of Alabama at Birmingham biomedical engineers report a significant advance in efforts to repair a damaged heart after a heart attack, using grafted heart-muscle cells to create a repair patch.

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