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Scientists develop patch that can repair damaged hearts | Cells taken from blood and ‘reprogrammed’ into heart muscle cells may help patients with heart failure
Cells taken from blood and ‘reprogrammed’ into heart muscle cells may help patients with heart failure
Prof Ingo Kutschka, the co-author of the work from University Medical Center Göttingen in Germany, said: “We now have, for the first time, a laboratory grown biological transplant available, which has the potential to stabilise and strengthen the heart muscle.” Prof Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, another author of the work from University Medical Center Göttingen, said the muscle in the patches had the characteristics of a heart that was just four to eight years old. Prof Sian Harding, of Imperial College London described the research as a groundbreaking study, but said further work was needed, not least as the heart muscle cells in the patch did not mature completely and the establishment of blood flow was slow.
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