Friday, February 14, 2025

Building New Hearts

The Toronto Star reports on the efforts of tissue engineerers to grow the components of hearts, one piece at a time. "When you are born you have a certain number of heart cells. They get bigger but they really don't grow. So if a person's heart is damaged ideally we'd like to take a sample of their heart tissue, expand it and develop living heart cells' paths with their own tissue.

The Toronto Star reports on the efforts of tissue engineerers to grow the components of hearts, one piece at a time. “When you are born you have a certain number of heart cells. They get bigger but they really don’t grow. So if a person’s heart is damaged ideally we’d like to take a sample of their heart tissue, expand it and develop living heart cells’ paths with their own tissue.” Growing replacements for complex organs like the heart from a patient’s own cells is the grail of current tissue engineering research. The ability to replace age-damaged organs or tissue as required offers the possibility of greatly extended healthy life spans.

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