(Scripps Research Institute) Researchers investigating a root cause for heart attacks and coronary artery disease will soon begin a novel investigative approach bordering on science fiction in pursuit of the holy grail of American medicine: preventing the nation's No. 1 killer.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $7.9 million grant to the Scripps Translational Science Institute of San Diego and Sangamo BioSciences of Richmond, Calif., to conduct the nation's first-ever, heart-based "disease in a dish" research.
