Skin Cells Used to Develop Possible Heart Defect Treatment in First-of-Its-Kind Study, Stanford University School of Medicine Study
ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2011) — Using skin cells from young patients who have a severe genetic heart defect, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have generated beating heart cells that carry the same genetic mutation. The newly created human heart cells -- cardiomyocytes -- allowed the researchers for the first time to examine and characterize the disorder at the cellular level.