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Heart muscle cells

The green heart muscle cells are 'natural'. The orange ones were fibroblasts that have been directly reprogrammed to become heart muscle cells.

Credit: The Gladstone Institutes

Until the day it dies, a cell that has become a skin cell remains a skin cell—or so scientists used to think.

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