In a world-first, scientists have created and implanted an Engineered Heart Muscle patch onto a human heart.

The patch is a lab-grown heart muscle made up of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived heart cells embedded in a collagen hydrogel and was able to mimic the heart's beat and repair damage from a heart attack

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08463-0#citeas

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