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Rice University researchers, from left, Varun Krishnamurthy, Matthew Sapp and Jane Grande-Allen show the customized bioreactor they used to monitor how heart valve tissues respond to oxygen starvation. They reported that aortic and mitral valves use different strategies to compensate for hypoxic conditions.
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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
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