Mice lack stem cells in the heart needed for self-repair

The same may be true for people

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DIVIDING LINE  After a heart attack, a mouse’s heart is awash with dividing cells (red) at the injury site. A study shows that those cells are immune cells and ones that form scar tissue, not stem cells that could help repair the organ.

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There’s some bad news for people who have suffered heart attacks: Healing may not come from within.