What's the link between snot and heart disease?
1,504 views · Published 31 July 2014 · 1:29 · Indexed 31 October 2026
Channel: UNSW · 2014 · Science & Technology
Please watch: "UNSWTV: Entertaining your curiosity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ7UO8nxiL0 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Sponsor Martin here: http://thinkable.org/idea/5 Did you know that the same goop that makes our snot green gets dumped in our arteries. Dr Martin Rees, UNSW Medicine, would like to reveal how a protective lining in our blood vessels becomes damaged and sticky in heart disease and test whether novel drugs he's developed can prevent this.