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Uncovering new approaches to the common inherited heart disorder hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Uncovering new approaches to the common inherited heart disorder hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

by Elisabeth Reitman, Yale University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research led by Muhammad Riaz, Ph.D., Jinkyu Park, Ph.D., and Lorenzo Sewanan, MD, Ph.D., from the Qyang and Campbell laboratories at Yale, provides a mechanism to identify abnormalities linked with a hereditary cardiac condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), in which walls of the left ventricle become abnormally...

New study illuminates the biology of a common heart disorder
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New study illuminates the biology of a common heart disorder

by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Penn Medicine have made a major advance in understanding the biology of a common, puzzling, and often fatal heart disorder, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), which features the enlargement of the heart and a progressive decrease in its function, for reasons...