New 'atlas' of human heart cells first step toward precision treatments for heart disease

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine& Dentistry) Scientists have for the first time documented all of the different cell types and genes expressed in the healthy human heart, in research published in the journal Nature.Cardiologists from the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute at the University of Alberta joined teams from Cambridge, Boston and Berlin to use state-of-the-art analytical techniques to sequence the ribonucleic acids (RNA) in nine types of single cells from six regions of the heart.
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