GUWAHATI: A research team from Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) has come up with a technique that can convert skin cells into heart cells and can be used to regenerate damaged heart tissues.
...IIT-Guwahati researchers produce cardiac proteins to fix damaged heart
An IIT-G team led by Dr. Rajkumar P. Thummer has successfully produced cell-permeant recombinant proteins that can convert skin cells to heart cells.