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Tissue Engineering to Mend Broken Hearts Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. The idea is that living heart cells or stem cells seeded onto such a scaffold would develop into a patch of cardiac tissue that could be used to treat congenital heart defects, or aid the recovery of tissue damaged by a heart attack. The biodegradable scaffold would be gradually absorbed into the body, leaving behind new tissue. (source: web.mit.edu)
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