This is because heart cells are not the easiest objects to create in a lab.
This refers to the process of returning heart cells to a resting state in preparation for the next heartbeat.
Some, like most brain and heart cells, seem never to divide again once the organism has reached maturity.
Millions of heart cells that keep the same cardiac rhythm do not touch, either.
Members of the miR-30 family have been found to be highly expressed in heart cells.
When the body gets flooded with intolerable levels of adrenaline, heart cells are killed.
When heart cells die, because of a heart attack or another cause, they cannot be repaired.
De Bold's research has focused on the study of storage granules in heart cells.
In a separate study, researchers said they had used gene therapy to revive failing heart cells.
A skin cell does not turn into a heart cell.