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Science 13 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5601, pp. 2141 - 2142
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079821
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Perspectives

DEVELOPMENT:
Fishing Out a New Heart

Ian C. Scott and Didier Y. R. Stainier

Approaches to repairing damaged heart tissue have focused on the promise of multipotential stem cells. However, repairing damaged tissue through regeneration--a strategy adopted by animals such as the newt--may also prove beneficial. In their Perspective, Scott and Stainier discuss new work (Poss et al.) that reveals the regenerative capacity of the injured zebrafish heart.

The authors are in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. E-mail: ianjr88{at}itsa.ucsf.edu, didier_stainier{at}biochem.ucsf.edu

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