http://discovermagazine.com/2006/feb/young-hearts/?searchterm=protein
This article was about Researchers at the university of Michigan figuring out a way to help people with heart disease but literally making the heart younger. There is two different kinds of troponin I protein the fetal version and the adult version. the fetal version is for at handling stress because of all the stress at child birth. The adult type allows our hearts to react to the fight or flight response but it shuts off in heart failure. What they did was joined the two proteins together so now they react to the fight or flight response and are keep working under heart failure.
I thought this article was interesting because my family has a history of heart disease and it would be great if there was something they could do to stop it. If this new therapy works then It might be able to stop it. They said it will be several years before its ready to be used for gene therapy, but this article was written in 2006 so they might be close now. There haven't been any updates about it so far. When they find something out about it i will have to tell my family. It might save theirs and other peoples lives.
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