Cardiology has a long-standing obsession with plumbing. You find a blocked pipe, you bypass it. A surgeon cracks the chest, stops the heart, reroutes the blood flow, and sews in a clean vessel harvested from the leg. Mechanically speaking, it’s a brilliant fix. The physical obstruction is gone. But mechanics only tell half the story. …
Heart Bypass Surgery Ischemia Protecting Fragile Mitochondria During Severe Cardiovascular Interventions with MOTS-c

