https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-new ... e-medicine
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Korea University have achieved a significant breakthrough in regenerative medicine. They have demonstrated how fibroblast growth factor 4 and Ascorbic acid, known as vitamin C, can induce the trans-differentiation of fibroblasts into functional cardiomyocytes. This discovery activates key cellular pathways and offers hope for developing treatments for cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide.
Better late than never. Two decades ago Harvard Scientists found that only vitamin C stimulated stem cells in the heart.
April 2003
Vitamin C Transforms Mouse Stem Cells Into Heart Muscle Cells
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 073122.htm
Richard T. Lee, M.D., senior author of the Harvard study, says: "We have been taught for decades that when your heart cells are dead, they are dead and there is nothing we can do about it. We are excited about anything suggesting that we can grow more heart cells."