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Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.

Kate Kelland

May 22, 2012

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