Fully Functioning Artificial Human Heart Muscle Developed

Duke University researchers say they have created an artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major step toward the end goal of repairing dead heart muscle in human patients, the team adds.The study (“ Cardiopatch platform enables maturation and scale-up of human pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered heart tissues ”) appears online in  Nature Communications.“Despite increa