How life-threatening blood clots take hold

When plaques coating blood vessel walls rupture and expose collagen, platelets spring into action to form a blood clot at the damaged site. Now, a new report in the 17th April issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals how those life-threatening clots - a leading cause of death in the United States, Europe and other industrialised countries - get an early grip. The discovery might offer a new way to fight clot formation before it can even begin, according to the researchers...

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