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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Human heart cells (green-and-red-striped bands in the lower half of the image) grafted into a nonhuman primate heart aside native heart cells (striped red without green). Mixing in the cells that line arteries with heart muscle has improved the grafts.

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Yu-Che Cheng

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