New Process May Help Regenerate Damaged Human Hearts
Heart disease is a major health epidemic that claims more than 650,000 American lives each year. Now, a groundbreaking new study may speed up the effort to defeat heart disease.
The human heart lacks adequate regeneration to reverse the damage of modern diseases. But thanks to a research study, a never-before-described process may end up helping regenerate damaged human hearts.
Despite studying the heart for more than 100 years, researchers have gained limited knowledge of how it repairs or regenerates itself. Certain mammals are very capable, but human adults aren’t among them.
“And so what we’re trying to do here is understand those differences of what is fixed and what is flexible, and try to pinpoint those and then utilize them to try to promote some tissue repair in the adult heart,” said Dr. Ian White, Ph.D., president and CSO of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident Neobiosis.
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