Getting to the heart of thick-filament structure

Understanding the structures and mechanisms of human heart functions.

As you read these words, your beating heart is keeping you alive.

No surprise, then, that researchers have sought for decades to understand the structures and mechanisms that underlie how the human heart functions, and to discover what changes in heart disease.

In this article on Nature.com, Professor Peter Knight explains how recent papers mark the start of an exciting era for further discoveries in heart health.

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