Human skin cells turn into heart cells.

Israeli researchers at the Technion and Rambam hospital in Haifa are the first scientists to reprogram healthy stem cells from the skin of heart patients and turn them into healthy heart cells. In the next decade, the scientists predict that they will be able to repair damaged hearts.
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