Beating Heart Patch is Large Enough to Repair the Human Heart

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  • TBMG-28137
Published January 01, 2018 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major step toward the end goal of repairing dead heart muscle in human patients. The study appears online in Nature Communications. 1