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Study finds potential key to growing heart cells (Reuters)

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Washington : DC : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Researchers looking for ways to turn stem cells into the types of heart cells they want said on Thursday they had found the key to making one important type in mice. They found the cells that give rise to the muscles of the ventricles -- the chambers that pump blood out of the heart -- in mice and said they...
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