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Heart of Silk: Scientists Use Silk from the Tasar Silkworm as a Scaffold for Heart Tissue
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2012-01-29 01:00
"Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim are seeking to restore complete cardiac function with the help of artificial cardiac tissue. They have succeeded in loading cardiac muscle cells onto a three-dimensional scaffold, created using the silk produced by a tropical silkworm."
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