Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 15:42 in Health & Medicine

Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. Living heart cells or stem cells seeded onto such a scaffold could be used to treat congenital heart defects, or aid the recovery of tissue damaged by a heart attack.

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