Ordinary heart cells become 'biological pacemakers' with injection of a single gene

... director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Mark S. Siegel Family Professor, a pioneer in cardiac stem cell research. A clinical trial of Marban's stem cell therapy for heart attack patients recently found the experimental treatment helped ...

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