Scientists transform non-beating human cells into heart-muscle cells

... in the latest issue of Stem Cell Reports , researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Cardiovascular and Stem Cell Research Director Deepak Srivastava, MD, reveal that they have done the same to human cells in a petri dish . "Fibroblasts make up ...

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