PHOTO ABOVE ARTICLE: Artery sections with glowing green smooth muscle cells from a healthy mouse with no atherosclerosis (left) and from a mouse with atherosclerosis (right). The red/purple fluorescence in the atherosclerotic plaque marks cells with DNA damage. (image courtesy of Huize Pan, PhD)
The fatty plaques that build up inside arteries in the disease atherosclerosis have features in common with tumors.
In a study published April 30 in the journal Circulation, researchers demonstrat ...

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