Researchers gain detailed insight into failing heart cells using new nanotechnique

Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 14:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have been able to see how heart failure affects the surface of an individual heart muscle cell in minute detail, using a new nanoscale scanning technique developed at Imperial College London. The findings may lead to better design of beta-blockers, the drugs that can slow the development of heart failure, and to improvements in current therapeutic approaches to treating heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.

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