Team:SCUT-China/Practices
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Human Practices
Overview
According to the data from WHO, cardiovascular diseases are the main leading cause of death globally. Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) is a critical second messenger molecule.It can transduce nitric-oxide and natriuretic-peptide-coupled signaling and remit the myocardial hypertrophy by relaxing the blood vessels. This summer, we tried to use synthetic biology to modify the cGMP metabolic pathway in a human cell line. We hope that our work would provide the proof of principle for future gene therapy.