New Heart Muscle Cells Grow From Patients' Skin
In a world first, scientists have grown new, healthy heart muscle cells using skin cells from heart failure patients. Writing about their work in a paper published online this week in the European Heart Journal, the Israel-based team explain how the new heart muscle cells are capable of integrating with exisiting heart tissue, opening up the prospect of repairing heart damage in heart failure patients using their own stem cells... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Reproductive Effects of Prolonged Experimentally Induced Hypothyroidism in Bitches
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