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How Did the First Heart Stem Cell Attempt Go?

Murry's team was able to get clumps of beating human heart muscle in a dish. When doing the cell counts, Murry found out that only 1 out of 1,000 of the stem cells turned into heart muscle.

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Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry · June 25th, 2019

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