Beating Cardiomyocytes: From skin cells to stem cells

Posted: June 23, 2012 at 9:12 pm



22-06-2012 13:13 This is a small group of beating heart cells in a cell culture that was derived from non-embryonic pluripotent stem cells ("induced pluripotent stem cells"). The induced pluripotent stem cells were generated from skin fibroblasts that were isolated from an 87 year old Native American female. This movie was made through a microscope- the entire culture is only about a millimeter (4 hundredths of an inch) across. The cultures were produced by members of the Loring Lab at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

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Beating Cardiomyocytes: From skin cells to stem cells

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