A Patch That Could Help Heal Broken Hearts (IMAGE)

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A Patch That Could Help Heal Broken Hearts

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A cardiac cell patch combines an engineered blood vessel network (red) with human cardiac stromal cells (blue) in a 3D fibrin matrix, as seen in this artist's rendition.

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Adapted from <i>ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering</i> <b>2020</b>, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00942

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