Towards Tissue Engineered Patches for a Ruptured Myocardium

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/08/towards-tissue-engineered-patches-for-a-ruptured-myocardium/

In the near term, the field of tissue engineering aims to produce artificial tissue structures that can support cells and integrate with native tissue when implanted into an injury, promoting regeneration that would not otherwise have taken place. In the longer term, the goal is to produce entirely artificial, fully functional organs – but first things first. Producing large sections of pseudo-tissue that can reliably promote regeneration is still a work in progress, with many projects at varying stages of development. As this paper makes clear, the fine details involved in sufficiently replicating tissue structural properties can be a challenge.

Myocardial Infarction (MI) occurs when blood flow to the heart is restricted, causing cardiomyocyte death, scar tissue for…

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