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Mechanical forces in a beating heart affect its cells’ DNA, with implications for development and disease
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Mechanical forces in a beating heart affect its cells’ DNA, with implications for development and disease

by Corey Neu, The Conversation Contracting heart cells exert forces on their genetic material that affect how they develop. Credit: Benjamin Seelbinder, CC BY-ND Sometimes cells can forget what type of cell they are and stop functioning correctly. This commonly happens in cancer, in which mature cells lose aspects of their identity and become more susceptible to begin...