Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado at Boulder (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado at Boulder

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University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Leslie Leinwand and her colleagues are teaming up with a Boulder biotechnology company to study the ability of pythons to rapidly enlarge and then decrease their heart muscle mass, which could lead to the development of new drugs to treat human cardiac diseases.

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Thomas Cooper

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