Harnessing Skin Cancer Genes to Heal Hearts
The Dermatology Digest
JANUARY 25, 2024
BRAF mutations in skin cancers may help repair cardiac muscle after a heart attack, according to a study in Sci en ce Advances. BRAF is a part of the MAPK signaling pathway that can promote cell division, In a new study, researchers show that introducing this mutation to rat heart tissue grown in a laboratory can induce growth. “Mature heart muscle cells do not typically divide, so we thought we’d need an especially strong genetic mutation to convince them to multiply,” explains Nenad Bursac, pr
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