Protein combination directs production of new cardiac myocytes

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have discovered a combination of proteins that triggers the production of new cardiac myocytes. The finding, reported today (26 April 2009) in Nature, might be an important first step towards making new, therapeutically useful heart cells via cellular reprogramming...

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