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fromWIRED
2 days ago

Japan Approves the World's First Treatment Made With Reprogrammed Human Cells

ReHeart and Amusepri represent breakthrough cell transplant therapies addressing severe heart failure and Parkinson's disease by replacing damaged tissue with functional cells derived from iPS cells.
fromHarvard Gazette
1 week ago

Hope for hard-to-treat heart disease

Some 1 million patients in the U.S. live with a type of heart disease called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF, caused by a stiffening of a chamber of the heart that makes it much more challenging to distribute blood throughout the body. The condition has few approved therapies and high mortality rates.
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