It could take at least five to ten years before clinical trials could start For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogram... Read more
Will the same combination of genes work in human hearts? The latest research developments to reprogram scar tissue resulting from myocardial infarction (MI) into viable heart muscle cells, w... Read more
Max Planck scientists have used silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue. Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscl... Read more
Around the world, scientists have been working on ways of replacing the heart tissue that dies when a heart attack occurs. These efforts have resulted in heart “patches” that are... Read more
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 eventual... Read more