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• Regenerating heart valves
  The human heart beats approximately 35 million times every year, pumping blood into the circulation via four different heart valves. In more than four million people each year, heart valves fail for different reasons, including birth defects, age-related deteriorations and infections. At present, clinicians use either artificial prostheses or fixed animal and cadaver-sourced tissue to...

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• Translation News Startup promises minimally invasive heart repair
  March 15, 2018
• Research Spotlights Gene Therapy for Canine Heart Failure
  July 6, 2017
• Press Release Engineering heart valves for the many
  May 18, 2017

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  MeTro Hydrogels
  An international team led by the Wyss Institute recently used microfabrication techniques to design a new micropatterned hydrogel that shows great promise for tissue engineering — cardiac tissue in particular. It incorporates an elastic protein called tropoelastin, which is found in all elastic human tissues. The Wyss Institute’s Ali Khademhosseini discusses the research. Credit: Wyss...