UCLA makes heart, blood cells from skin
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:45
in Biology & Nature
Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. read more
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