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Could Gene Therapy Cure Heart Disease?
Harnessing the organ's own healing properties may help prevent heart attacks and lessen the painful effects of severely narrowed coronary arteries
Gabor Rubanyi is a physician and co-founder of Angionetics, a company that is developing a gene therapy to grow new blood vessels in the heart. Credit: Nick Higgins
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