How To Identify The Birth Of New Cardiac Cells

Monday, December 10, 2012 - 04:40 in Health & Medicine

New cells develop in the heart but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. New research from Brigham and Women's Hospital used a novel method to identify these new heart cells and describe their origins - a Multi-isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) imaging system that demonstrates cell division in the adult mammalian heart.  read more

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