Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Engineering the heart piece by piece

Source: University of Michigan Health System
Date: March 27, 2007

Summary:

Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack. Children born with defective heart valves might get new ones that can grow in place, rather than being replaced every few years. And people with clogged or weak blood vessels might get a new “natural” replacement, instead of a factory-made one.