New source of heart stem cells ...(love to learn what controls a progenitor...)

Date:6/22/2008

love to learn what controls a progenitor's choiceto become a fibroblast, a smooth muscle cell, or a cardiomyocyteand develop ways of "biasing progenitors to make the choice or choices we want," says Pu. "We still don't know how we can manipulate these progenitors, and there's no way to predict which ones will be useful. But I think having more choices is good, because then hopefully one of them will work."

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Contact: Bess Andrews Elizabeth.Andrews@childrens.harvard.edu 617-919-3110 Children's Hospital Boston Source:Eurekalert

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