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11-22-2006 · EurekAlert!Helping to change scientists' thinking about how the heart is formed, investigators at Children's Hospital Boston have identified a type of stem cell that gives rise to at least two different cell types that make up the heart's tissues. The findings, to be published in the Dec. 15 Cell, bring researchers a step closer to being able to regenerate tissues to repair congenital heart defects in children and damage caused by heart attacks in adults.
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01-08-2008 · EurekAlert!
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- JCI table of contents: Feb. 1, 2007
02-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
This release contains summaries, links to PDFs and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published Feb. 1, 2007, in the JCI, including: New role in asthma for old drug; Tumor-reactive T cells boosted by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; p21 stops HIV-1 in its tracks in hematopoietic stem cells; What makes epithelial cells change their identity?; NOTCHing up heart development; Stress response prevents neurodegeneration, and 4E-BP1 and 4E-BP2 stop mice getting fat.
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