Scientist Grow Heart from Stem Cells
The Star
3rd April 2007
LONDON: A British research team has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time, The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday.
Animal trials are planned for later this year and, if successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for people suffering from heart disease within three years, it said.
“…The common pathway of death and suffering is heart failure,” said leading heart surgeon professor Magdi Yacoub, who is heading the research team.
“Reversing heart failure could have a major impact,” he was quoted as saying in the Guardian.
His team at the heart science centre at Harefield hospital has grown tissue that works in the same way as the values in human hearts, according to the newspaper.- Reuter
