Heart Cells Video (VIDEO)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Induced cardiac progenitor cells (iCPCs) can develop in a dish into contracting heart muscle cells (green) when grown together with other contracting heart muscle cells. These cells could potentially be used for modeling heart diseases as well as testing drugs.

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Pratik Lalit

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