Source: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Date: November 28, 2011
Summary:
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a cellular protein that plays a central role in the formation of new blood vessels. The molecule is the protein Shc (pronounced SHIK), and new blood vessel formation, or angiogenesis, is seriously impaired without it. The study appeared online Nov. 16, 2011 in the journal Blood.
