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(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...

Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists 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.

It's long been an article of faith that human heart muscle, once damaged, cannot regenerate. But findings from two clinical trials, presented Monday at the American Heart Assn.'s Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., suggest that isn't the case.

It's long been an article of faith that human heart muscle, once damaged, cannot regenerate. But findings from two clinical trials, presented Monday at the American Heart Assn.'s Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., suggest that isn't the case.

(WHAS11)  Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, but heart disease may have met its match.  University of Louisville Cardiac Scientists have spent nearly 8 years developing a treatment that actually repairs damaged heart muscle. Now, they say they have proof that the damaged muscle can be saved and rejuvenated.  They say they have discovered that the heart can heal itself. Two-and ...