Mapping heart disease: Researchers uncover genes that may dramatically affect heart health
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 16:21
in Health & Medicine
Though heart disease is a major cause of disability and death, very little is understood about its genetic underpinnings. Recently, an international team of investigators at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) and other organizations shed new light on the subject.