Preclinical studies show that engineered heart muscle (EHM) can remuscularize damaged heart tissue, but most evidence ... there was no evidence of arrhythmia or tumor growth.

"These vesicles move through the circulatory system and eventually reach the tumor or the pre-cancerous tissue," Caller adds. "Following an injury in the heart muscle and deterioration to heart ...

A new study co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart Center has unveiled that a subset of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle tissue.

Since heart muscle cells don't regenerate, the repair consists of cobbling together a scar tissue patch ... from a variety of diseases, such as cancer and perhaps even stroke." ...