UH researchers are pioneering tools for heart regeneration

(University of Houston) University of Houston biologists are developing strategies to help regenerate heart muscle cell formation. Supported by grants from the American Heart Association, assistant professor of biochemistry Yu Liu and his team have uncovered new regulators of heart formation that are easier to deliver into human bodies, and thus have a shorter path to clinical use. Their findings are published in the Aug. 8 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.