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A boost for heart regeneration

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Heart muscle cells die en masse after injury, yet the adult mammalian heart retains little capacity to regenerate them. Regulatory microRNA sequences may stimulate self-renewal of these muscle cells. See Article p.376

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 5 December 2012.

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  1. and in the Department of Bioengineering, Mark Mercola is at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, University of California, San Diego, California 92037, USA.,

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