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Recognizing heart cells in a crowd

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A cardiac-specific reporter genetically engineered into human embryonic stem cells allows the optimization of differentiation protocols and the identification of cell-surface markers—a welcome new tool to help isolate and define cardiac cell lineages.

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Figure 1: Applications of the NKX2-5eGFP/w reporter cell line.

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  1. Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Timothy J. Kamp is at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.,

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T.J.K. is a co-founder and consultant for Cellular Dynamics International, a company that uses human pluripotent stem cells and their derivatives for research, drug discovery and drug testing.

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