Last month, Madison, WI-based Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) began shipping heart cells derived from a person's own stem cells. The cells could be useful to researchers studying everything from the toxicity of new or existing drugs to the electrodynamics of both healthy and diseased cardiac cells. CDI's scientists create their heart cells--called iCell Cardiomyocytes--by taking cells from a person's own blood (or other tissue) and chemically reversing them back to a pluripotent state. (source: technologyreview.com)
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