Mini Heart Implants to Improve Circulation
June 24, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Much of regenerative medicine-thinking has focused on using stem cells to grow new organs—hearts, bladders, livers, lungs, etc. This remarkable piece, however, describes work at George Washington University aimed at growing mini-hearts that form a kind of pressure cuff for pumping blood in cases of chronic venous insufficiency. MORE WITH VIDEO
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