Muscles Grown from Stem Cells (VIDEO)

Duke University

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Duke engineers have grown the first functioning human muscle from non-muscle cells -- skin cells reverted to their primordial stem cell state. The advance holds promise for cellular therapies, drug discovery and studying rare diseases.

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