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A healing patch holds tight to a beating heart

Miniature plaster delivers stem cells designed to heal damaged heart tissue.
Cardiac muscle. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a bundle of cardiac muscle fibrils (green) from a healthy heart.

Heart muscle (artificially coloured). Stem cells embedded in a patch that sticks to the heart can form new muscle . Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL

A 3D bioprinted ‘cardiac patch’ might be able to repair the damage caused by a heart attack.

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Nature 583, 11 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01934-0

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