Scientists identify single microRNA that controls how heart chambers form

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 09:09 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have identified a genetic factor critical to the formation of chambers in the developing heart. The discovery of the role of a microRNA called miR-138, could offer strategies for the treatment of congenital heart defects...

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