Clues about controlling cholesterol rise from yeast studies
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 02:49
in Health & Medicine
Having discovered how a lowly, single-celled fungus regulates its version of cholesterol, Johns Hopkins researchers are gaining new insight about the target and action of cholesterol-lowering drugs taken daily by millions of people to stave off heart attacks and strokes. Their work appears in the December issue of Cell Metabolism...
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