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Cardiac aid to the injured but not the elderly?

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A genetic lineage-tracing study provides evidence that adult progenitor cells repopulate the cardiomyocyte pool in diseased hearts, but not during normal aging (pages 970–974). These stem cells could become the basis for innovative ways to treat or prevent heart failure.

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Figure 1: Genetic lineage–tracing system to detect cardiomyocyte repopulation from progenitors.

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  1. Charles E. Murry is in the Department of Pathology, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, 815 Mercer St. Room 453, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA. murry@u.washington.edu,

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