Lab Heart Muscle can Help Improve Treatment Outcomes for Heart Attack Patients

A new study published in the journal Biomacromolecules reports on the efforts of scientists in growing cardiac muscle on a scaffold using carbon nanofibers, the success of which could improve the outcome of heart attack patients. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Rui L. Reis, Ana Martins and colleagues point out that when damaged, adult heart tissue can't heal itself very well. The only way to fix an injured heart is with a transplant. But within the past decade, interest ...

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