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Heartbroken embryos heal

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An area of injured heart in zebrafish embryos repairs itself using cells from neighbouring areas. The regenerating cells seem to originate from an intermediate progenitor-cell population. See Letter p.497

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Figure 1: Spontaneous repair and regeneration of the heart.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion2 were published online on 19 June 2013.

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  1. Kenneth R. Chien is in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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