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Currently the problem with the heart is obtaining a source of cells. No one has conculusively found heart stem cells in an adult subject yet.
Currently the problem with the heart is obtaining a source of cells. No one has conculusively found heart stem cells in an adult subject yet.
I thought the idea was that stem cells are general - there aren't "heart" stem cells.
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