Patients' skin cells turned into heart muscle cells to repair their damaged hearts

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 20:30 in Health & Medicine

For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue.

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