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Yen Kong, BME Research Fellow, feeds fibroblast cells different proteins to help transform them into new heart muscle cells in the Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building on February 7, 2014.
Kong, a member of the Cell Signaling in Engineered Tissues (CSET) lab that Putnam heads, developed a research program to see if fibroblasts, a cell type common in scar tissue, could be transformed into heart muscle cells.
By using this method of stem cell research, Kong and Putnam hope to transform scar tissue from heart attacks into new heart muscle.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
20140207_BMEPutnam_HeartCells_JX_013
Yen Kong, BME Research Fellow, feeds fibroblast cells different proteins to help transform them into new heart muscle cells in the Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building on February 7, 2014.
Kong, a member of the Cell Signaling in Engineered Tissues (CSET) lab that Putnam heads, developed a research program to see if fibroblasts, a cell type common in scar tissue, could be transformed into heart muscle cells.
By using this method of stem cell research, Kong and Putnam hope to transform scar tissue from heart attacks into new heart muscle.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing