Medical researchers from Osaka University Hospital have succeeded in repairing the weakened heart of a severe cardiac patient by applying thin sheets of muscle tissue grown from cells taken from the patient’s thigh. The regenerative medicine technique — described as the world’s first in which a patient waiting for an organ transplant was successfully treated using his or her own cells — may one day provide an alternative to heart transplant, the researchers say.

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