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Regenerating the heart
Tantalizing findings show that the heart can make new muscle cells.
Fallout from the frightening era of nuclear weapons testing has blown away the long-held notion that the heart can't make new cells, a finding that may someday usher in new therapies for damaged and failing hearts.
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