A supercharged protein reduces damage from heart attack

Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have tapped into the body's own repair system to protect heart cells after an attack. In the study mice were bred to make a supercharged version of the protein focal adhesion kinase, or FAK.

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