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...Harvard study may open the possibility of using human stem cells to regenerate diseased or damaged hearts...
...Medical School Professor Kenneth R. Chien ’73, the project—published in today’s issue of Science—was a collaborative effort of scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...team used a mouse cardiac stem cell to develop a functioning, intact strip of mouse heart muscle, raising the possibility that such cardiac stem cells can have regenerative capacity if manipulated appropriately...
Chien said this is the first time someone has been able to make a functional muscle in a mature conformation by facilitating the transition from a pluripotent embryonic stem cell—a cell that has the capacity to differentiate into any other cell type—to heart tissue...
...This demonstrates that we’re halfway home, and remarkably we got halfway home with just one chemical,” said Kevin Eggan, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and another senior author on the paper, in a press release announcing the paper...