Fixing a broken heart: These incredible images show how regenerative medicine can rebuild you
Heart failure is caused by a heart attack, which often occurs suddenly, or over time thanks to an underlying condition such as high blood pressure, heart valve disease or congenital heart defects.
In this text each project showcases a different approach in the fight against heart disease based on regenerative medicine – a branch of medicine that aims to heal patients by regrowing or replacing damaged cells and tissues.
A kind of plasters was grown from stem cells by a team from the University of Cambridge. The patches could one day be applied to a damaged heart, much like a sticking plaster, to help it to repair itself.
The University of Edinburgh team hope that, once in place, the clone cells can begin to create a new network of blood vessels to provide the damaged areas of the heart with a fresh supply of oxygen and help it to repair itself.
team from the University of Aberdeen is working on this project based on stem cells designed to copy the way that heart muscle develops in the womb.
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