Skin Cells Reprogrammed As Heart Cells Beat in a Dish


	Skin Cells Reprogrammed As Heart Cells Beat in a Dish

Silkweaver

2-21-2009 6:34 PM

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medicine, stem cells

Silkweaver says:

Look at the picture and imagine what would it mean for the future of medicine.

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2-22-2009 1:46 AM

filmmaven

There was a bunch of articles on this recently. Was even mentioned during a TED talk.

2-22-2009 10:04 AM

tanyamm

That was amazing.

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