Skin cells help to develop possible heart defect treatment in first-of-its-kind Stanford study

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 15:22 in Health & Medicine

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 characterise the disorder at the cellular level...

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