Discoveries

LSI researchers reveal missing link in a heart disease pathway

December 20, 2007 - University of Michigan scientists, led by U-M structural biologist John Tesmer, and their colleagues have helped characterize a previously unknown link in the chain of biochemical reactions implicated in some forms of heart disease.

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John Tesmer examines cell membrane messengers

Dec. 9, 2005 - Tesmer's X-ray crystallographic analysis of G proteins in the plasma membrane involved in blood clot formation, heart disease, and blood pressure was published in this week's issue of Science.

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