Edmonton Journal
🏢 Postmedia
📍 AB
Aug 10, 2026
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Snail hibernation could lead to saving human hearts: U of A researchers
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University of Alberta researchers have made a breakthrough in organ preservation by studying snail hibernation. While studying snails, researchers found a molecule during their hibernation that allows the snails to slow their heart and breathing rates without loss of oxygen. The researchers then synthesized the molecule into a drug called Snail Activator of PHLPP1 (SNAP). […]
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