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Quick Read: Medical Advance Could Yield New Approach in Heart Disease

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KQED's Quest reports on a "major discovery" from researchers at the Gladstone Institutes, which is affiliated with UC San Francisco. In a study published today in Nature, researchers report they have succeeded for the first time using a new genetic technique to repair -- from within -- the hearts of mice weakened by heart attack. Click on the link below to read the post or watch the video.

Video on Apr 18, 2012 by Gabriela Quirós fromQUEST Northern California Topics:Biology, Health, News, Video Science Education Collections:Biotechnology More than 5 million people in the United States live with damaged hearts that make it difficult to walk and carry out other simple daily tasks.

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