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Feb. 04, 2011
Quicker Recipe For Turning Skin Cells Into Heart Cells
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| Reporting in Nature Cell Biology, researchers say they have turned mouse skin cells into beating heart cells -- skipping the induced pluripotent stem cell stage that has been required in the past. Leonard Zon, director of the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston, explains the findings. |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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Leonard Zon
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston
Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
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