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

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 16:31 in Biology & Nature

Using skin cells from young patients who have a severe genetic heart defect, 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.

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