Mending a Broken Heart? Scientists Transform Non-Beating Human Cells Into Heart-Muscle Cells, Gladstone Institute Study

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In the aftermath of a heart attack, cells within the region most affected shut down. They stop beating. And they become entombed in scar tissue. But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have demonstrated that this damage need not be permanent -- by finding a way to transform the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those that closely resemble beating heart cells.

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