Heart failure is reversed with new gene therapy in animal study: ‘Unprecedented recovery’

Heart failure has historically been irreversible, but the outcome of a new study suggests that could someday change.

At the University of Utah, scientists used a new gene therapy that was shown to reverse the effects of heart failure in a large animal study.

In the study, pigs with heart failure were found to have low levels of cardiac bridging integrator 1 (cBIN1), a critical heart protein.

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