Israeli Researchers Make Heart Tissue from Stem Cells

(Ha'aretz) - Tamara Traubman Medical researchers at Haifa's Technion have succeeded in producing heart tissue using stem cells from a human being. Following testing, the heart tissue appears to be beating like a normal human heart, according to Dr. Lior Epstein, head of the research team at the Technion's Rappoport Institute. The findings were recently published in the journal Circulation Research.


2003-01-03 00:00:00

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