New Heart Cells from the Atomic Age.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 300, Nº. 6, 2009, págs. 16-16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article presents an update to the article "Cold War Clues" from the December 2005 issue. The discovery that humans have the ability to produce new cardiomyocytes is reported, noting that the discovery was made possible using observations related to the decay of atomic age carbon 14 in the human body, which had been released into the atmosphere due to nuclear testing in the 1950s.