Scaffolding to help mend a broken heart

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Although medical advances over recent years have seen the majority of people surviving heart attacks, the damage done to the heart muscle is irreversible. As a result, most patients eventually succumb to congestive heart failure, the most common cause of death in developed countries. Stem cells offer hope for achieving what the human body can’t do: mending broken hearts. Now researchers have built a scaffold that supports the growth and integration of stem cell-derived cardiac muscles cells. The scaffold supports the growth of cardiac cells in the lab and encourages blood vessel growth in living animals... Continue Reading Scaffolding to help mend a broken heart

Tags: Heart, Implant, Medical, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, University of Washington

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