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Stem cell meets patient
Parent Publication: Stem Cell Lines - Winter/Spring 2008Published Date: March 12, 2008Every year, more than 100,000 babies are born in the United States with major birth defects. It was just one of...
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How do you mend a broken heart?
Parent Publication: Stem Cell Lines - Winter/Spring 2008Published Date: March 12, 2008At the recent HSCI Public Forum on Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, four scientists presented striking images...
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HSCI Think Tanks: Accelerating the process of discovery
Parent Publication: Stem Cell Lines - Spring/Summer 2008 Published Date: June 16, 2008The power of an international colloquium of pre-eminent scientists can be transformative. Nowhere was that more...
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Public Forum: Stem Cells and Key Diseases
Parent Publication: Stem Cell Lines - Spring/Summer 2008 Published Date: June 16, 2008At HSCI's recent Public Forum, Jeffrey Macklis, MD, DHST discussed some of his research in the area of nervous...
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Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: February 2009Published Date: February 3, 2009Several of our internal organs, including our heart, intestine, spleen, and liver are shaped asymmetrically and are...
View ArticleHeart Disease and Calcium Signaling
Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: March 2009Published Date: March 2, 2009Cardiac hypertrophy is a thickening of the heart muscle due to an increase in size of heart muscle cells, or...
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Cardiovascular Disease Program Overview
Video Category: Program Overview Video Category Plural: Program Overviews HSCI Entity: Cardiovascular Disease ProgramKenneth R. Chien, MD, PhDPublished Date: June 25, 2009Video Path:...
View ArticleMaster stem cell for human heart identified
Published Date: July 1, 2009 Media Source: CBS Click here to read more.Kenneth R. Chien, MD, PhD
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Human cardiac master stem cells identified
Published Date: July 1, 2009Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified the earliest master human heart stem cell from human embryonic stem cells - ISL1+...
View ArticleBuilding blocks of the human heart
Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: September 2009Published Date: September 16, 2009A number of different cell types are required for the development of the human heart. Understanding the...
View ArticleLighting Up Our Understanding of Heart Development
Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: November 2009Published Date: November 12, 2009The mammalian heart is generated from two groups of progenitor cells termed first and second heart field cells....
View ArticleCardiomyocyte Cells Just Like Mother (Nature) Used to Make
Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: February 2010Published Date: February 18, 2010Engineered cardiac muscle cells made from neonatal rat cardiomyocytes provide a promising model for cardiovascular...
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Helping the heart help itself
Parent Publication: Stem Cell Lines - Summer 2011Published Date: April 8, 2011Human trials of stem cell therapy for post-heart attack patients have raised as many questions as they have answered,...
View ArticleHow to Mend a Broken Heart
Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: May 2011Published Date: May 18, 2011___FCKsi___1Human cardiac muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) have a limited capacity for renewal, which is not sufficient to...
View ArticleProliferation over multiplication
Parent Publication: HSCI Science Update: April 2012Published Date: April 9, 2012A major problem in repairing damaged hearts is figuring out how to generate new myocytes to replace those lost due to...
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