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Israeli scientists create heart muscle cells from skin cells in the lab

The discovery is an important advance in the treatment of tissue damaged by heart disease.

Fabien Danjan of CNRS (French Reseach Institut Center) introduces embryonic stem cells in a mouse embryo to set a genetically modified line, on February 9, 2012, at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML).

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