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are similar to heart tissue from children aged between four and eight years old. One of the patches, grown in the lab from stem cells “We are implanting young muscle into patients with heart ...

tissues and organs. When growth hormone reaches cells, it stimulates the production of a protein called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1), which is essential for muscle growth. However ...

which means they can generate sufficient cardiac muscle cells to allow a graft on to the heart. Pluripotent cells are used to make many types of bodily tissue. The monkeys’ patched-up heart ...