by Stefan Zorn, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Dr. Marc Reboll (left) and Professor Dr. Kai Wollert. Credit: Karin Kaiser / MHH More than 300,000 people suffer a heart attack in Germany every year. In this case, the heart muscle is no longer supplied with sufficient blood and oxygen, and part of the heart muscle tissue dies...
by Jeff Hansen, University of Alabama at Birmingham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Twenty years ago, clinicians first attempted to regenerate a failing human heart by injecting muscle myoblasts into the heart during a bypass operation. Despite high initial hopes and multiple experimental and clinical studies since then, outcomes have been neutral or marginally positive for...
