Mending a broken heart -- with a molecule that turns stem cells into heart cells

Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 13:01 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have long been looking for a source of heart cells to study cardiac function or perhaps even to replace damaged tissue in heart disease patients. To do this, many are looking to stem cells. Scientists now describe how they uncovered ITD-1, a molecule that generates unlimited numbers of new heart cells from stem cells.

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