“Imagine you have clogged up plumbing due to debris. Similar clogging in our blood vessels occurs due to fat and cholesterol building up over time. Our drug, we hope, will prevent [or] delay the rise in cholesterol and fat and thus prevent thickening/hardening of the blood vessel. This is like the use of Drano to clean up our plumbing at home.” The Daily Beast on how scientists at Johns Hopkins may have just gotten one step closer to eliminating heart disease.