According to the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), researchers from the Harvard Medical School have written a sequel to "Fantastic voyage," the 1966 sci-fi movie. By injecting self-assembling peptide nanofibers loaded with pro-survival factors into rats, they've showed that the animals could be protected from heart failures. So far, the researchers have not extended their experiments to humans. Read more for other details, illustrations and references.
Sources: Journal of Clinical Investigation news release, December 15, 2005; and various web sites
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