A Heart Cell’s Beginning
The 20th-place winner was taken by Hui Lin and Kim McBride at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Center for Cardiovascular Research in Ohio. It shows one of the major groups of heart cells in humans, cardiomyocytes, being derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, which can become almost any other type of cell. Cardiomyocytes in particular allow the heart to contract and pump blood around the body, and some are specialized to act as the heart’s natural pacemaker.
