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Harvard team grows heart muscle

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:52 am

by ofonorow

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... tem_cells/

This story doesn't say vitamin C was used, we can guess based on the following, also from Harvard:

Vitamin C Transforms Mouse Stem Cells Into Heart Muscle Cells
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 073122.htm

Re: Harvard team grows heart muscle

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:34 am

by Johnwen

"This suggests that the effect of vitamin C on cardiac differentiation is independent of its antioxidant effect," Lee says.

DAH!!!!!