Chemically Reprogrammed Beating Heart Cell (VIDEO)

Gladstone Institutes

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A beating heart muscle cell that was created from a human skin cell using a cocktail of only nine chemicals. This is the first instance of purely chemical cellular reprogramming, without adding external genes to the cell.

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Nan Cao, PhD, Gladstone Institutes

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