New cause of heart arrhythmia found
Friday, December 12, 2008 - 05:42
in Biology & Nature
A new study shows that atrial fibrillation - the most common form of sustained heart arrhythmia - can be caused in an unexpected way. Researchers report in the 12th December issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, the first evidence that a rare and particularly severe form of the disease stems from a gene involved in shuttling other molecules in and out of the cell nucleus, where the DNA that serves as the blueprint for life is housed...