Contact: Josh Baxt
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Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

A New Path to Fat-Related Heart Disease

Caption: A team led by Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D., at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute recently unraveled an alternative pathway to lipotoxic cardiomyopathy in fruit flies -- a genetic mechanism that occurs independently of a diet high in fat.

Credit: Josh Baxt and James Short

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