Protein important in diabetes may also play a key role in heart disease, other disorders
Friday, July 23, 2010 - 00:14
in Health & Medicine
Studying a protein already known to play an important role in Type 2 diabetes and cancer, genomics researchers have discovered that it may have an even broader role in disease, particularly in other metabolic disorders and heart disease. In finding unsuspected links to other disease-related genes, the scientists may have identified future targets for drug treatments.