A Japanese group of researchers says it has conducted heart surgery using sheets of heart muscle cells made from iPS cells.
Induced pluripotent stem cells are created from reprogrammed human cells and can develop into various kinds of body tissue.
The Osaka University team, led by Professor Yoshiki Sawa, aims to establish a treatment for patients with serious heart disease by restoring the organ’s function. The team’s surgery involves putting sheets of heart muscle cells derived from iPS in a patient’s heart.
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