Items Tagged ‘cardiomyocytes’

December 27, 2022

Engineering tissue to strengthen underdeveloped hearts

By Susan Buckles

Could cells taken from a small patch of skin become heart muscle and repair a rare congenital heart defect? It’s a scientific question that Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., and collaborators hope to answer for those born with an underdeveloped left heart chamber — a rare, complex condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Discovering […]

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Tags: cardiomyocytes, Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, congenital heart disease, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, induced pluripotent stem cells, Timothy Nelson