New study uncovers mechanisms underlying how diabetes damages the heart

27 May 2016


A new study, published in Cell Reports, documents how a team in Texas found that RBFOX2, a splicing regulator, binds to 73% of the RNA that is mis-spliced in diabetic heart tissues. This alternative splicing was found to impair normal gene expression patterns in the heart.

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