California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Heart muscle with reprogrammed skin cells
The cells in green are skin cells directly reprogrammed into heart muscle cells. The red indicates a protein that is unique to heart muscle. The technique used to reprogram the skin cells into heart cells could one day be used to mend heart muscle damaged by disease or heart attack.
The image was taken in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease.
Learn more about CIRM-funded stem cell research: www.cirm.ca.gov.
Heart muscle with reprogrammed skin cells
The cells in green are skin cells directly reprogrammed into heart muscle cells. The red indicates a protein that is unique to heart muscle. The technique used to reprogram the skin cells into heart cells could one day be used to mend heart muscle damaged by disease or heart attack.
The image was taken in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease.
Learn more about CIRM-funded stem cell research: www.cirm.ca.gov.