06/05/2026
Heart recovery breakthrough! Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute & University of Utah discovered that the protein PERM1 holds the key to why some failing hearts recover while others don’t. In LVAD patients, PERM1 fully restored in hearts that bounced back — but stayed low in those that didn’t. Huge step toward personalized heart failure treatments!
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