Cancer Mutation Helping Heart Heal (IMAGE)

Duke University

Cancer Mutation Helping Heart Heal

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Two cross sections of engineered rat cardiac tissue showing the BRAF mutation at work. The BRAF-altered cell on the right has more newly synthesized DNA (green), showing the mutation is inducing cell division.

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Nicholas Strash, Duke University

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