“On Monday, researchers from Japan’s Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant.

Rather than replacing their patient’s entire heart with a new organ, these researchers placed degradable sheets containing heart muscle cells onto the heart’s damaged areas – and if the procedure has the desired effect, it could eventually eliminate the need for some entire heart transplants…”

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