Scientists Convert Skin Cells In To Heart Muscle Cells
Researchers have used genetic engineering to turn mouse skin cells in to mouse heart muscle cells.
Human heart muscle can not repair itself. This is unfortunate, because millions of people suffer from heart failure each year.
Science has tried to make heart muscle from undifferentiated stem cells, a process which involves technical challenges and social controversies.
Researchers have now created mouse heart muscle cell from mouse skin cell by manipulating three critical genes.
If this success can also be accomplished with human tissue, it could provide an important new source of human heart muscle.
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