CLS researcher moving closer to using 3-D tech to repair heart muscle tissue

A bio-medical engineer at the University of Saskatchewan is making progress in his dream of one day using a 3D printer to help heart attack victims recover.
Specifically, Mohammad Izadifar is working on a way to regenerate heart muscle tissue.
“The problem is the heart cannot repair itself once it is damaged due to a heart attack,” Izadifar said in a news release. “My goal is to take stem cells from the patient and then, in-vitro, I expand and instruct them to become heart cell