Science Creates a Living Bandage for Broken Hearts

A report about a viable "beating" tissue patch for a "broken" (diseased) heart was released a few moments ago. This living tissue is applied to a part of the heart that has been affected by a prior heart attack or cardiovascular disease. " "We joke that this is really 'a patch for a broken heart,'" said Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, and co-director of the Tissue Engineering Resource Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md." The researchers state the thumbnail size patch is not ready for humans yet and how important it is that the patch "integrate" with the syncronicity of the heart.