Stem cells for first time used to create abnormal heart cells for study of cardiomyopathy

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 06:05 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time differentiated human stem cells to become heart cells with cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle cells are abnormal. The discovery will allow scientists to learn how those heart cells become diseased and from there, they can begin developing drug therapies to stop the disease from occurring or progressing. The study is published in the June 9th issue of Nature...

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