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Carbon dating shows humans make new heart cells

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The cold war helps settle a hot debate about how hearts grow.

Fallout from nuclear bomb tests during the cold war has just yielded encouraging news for those searching for ways to reverse heart disease.

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Baker, M. Carbon dating shows humans make new heart cells. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.232

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