Gladstone scientist Swetansu Hota working in the lab (IMAGE)

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Gladstone scientist Swetansu Hota working in the lab

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Swetansu Hota and his colleagues in the Bruneau Lab at Gladstone Institutes discovered, to their surprise, that removing one gene from developing heart cells suddenly makes them turn into brain cell precursors.

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Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes

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