February 14, 2014, by Lindsay Brooke

Playing cupid – stem cell scientists hoping to mend our ‘broken’ hearts

Imagine a world where a broken heart could be mended — not by Cupid’s arrow — but with a drug with no side effects or by an injection of new heart cells to replace the cells that have been lost or damaged.

These treatments might be years or decades away but that’s what a team of scientists at The University of Nottingham is working towards. There’s more on the University’s news page.

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