http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/5527 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/new-source-heart-stem-cells-discovered <!--paging_filter--><p><a title="" href="http://www.hsci.harvard.edu">Harvard Stem Cell Institute</a>(HSCI) researchers at <a title="" href="http://www.childrenshospital.org/">Children’s Hospital Boston</a> are continuing to document the heart’s earliest origins. Now, they have pinpointed a new, previously unrecognized group of stem cells that give rise to cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells. These stem cells, located in the surface of the heart, or epicardium, advance the hope of being able to regenerate injured heart tissue.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/new-source-heart-stem-cells-discovered">read more</a></p> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:00:44 -0400 404132862 20293 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu