Stem Cells Could Revolutionise Healing Heart Disease

Stem cells have recently appeared in the press for being able to treat cancer, and as a recent study by UK scientists reveals, they might also be able to help repair hearts ravaged by cardiac disease.

When a heart is damaged, it cannot often repair the cells or make news ones. However, the new study shows that re-injected stem cells naturally home in on damaged regions of the heart to repair them.

The discovery could lead to less invasive treatments for heart failure, or early prevention of the condition that affects more than 750,000 Britons.

Heart failure occurs when the heart is too weak to pump blood around the body efficiently, leading to breathlessness, fatigue, and disability.

A leading cause of the condition is heart attacks, but it can also be triggered by genetic defects.

The new research set out to investigate the role of cardiac stem cells by removing them from rodents with heart failure.

Without the stem cells, the animals' hearts were unable to regenerate and recover.

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Stem Cells Could Revolutionise Healing Heart Disease