Protein combination directs production of new cardiac myocytes
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have discovered a combination of proteins that triggers the production of new cardiac myocytes. The finding, reported today (26 April 2009) in Nature, might be an important first step towards making new, therapeutically useful heart cells via cellular reprogramming...
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