Science reporter, BBC News
A team of Israeli scientists has developed a potential way to fix the damage from heart attacks.
A "patch" has been made from heart muscle that can be used to fix scarring left over from a heart attack.
Writing in the journal PNAS, the scientists describe how the technique strengthened the hearts of rats that had suffered heart attacks.
The "patch" was grown in abdominal tissue first, then transplanted to damaged areas of the heart.
This experiment is the first to show that such patches can actually improve the health of a heart after it has been damaged.
The scientists measured an increase in the size of the muscle in damaged areas, and improved conduction of the electrical impulses needed for the heart to pump normally.
Heart failure
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It is good to hear that there is progress being made on treating heart problems. It all needs funding though, this type of research.
I have written an article on heart attacks for charity since my father died of one about 3 years ago.
I will place a link on it to your blog, be good if you could reference it somewhere in your post.
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