Viagra can protect the fetal heart

Congratulations to  Professor Dino  Giussani and colleagues on their front cover picture in Journal of Physiology, which accompanies their latest paper.  Their discovery,  that the main component of Viagra can protect the fetal heart, may lead to valuable treatments in some complications of pregnancy. 
http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/news/viagra-protects-the-fetal-heart