All-Canadian innovation an “unprecedented leap forward” in addressing repair of cardiac muscle after a heart attack.
Scientists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) have developed the first human protein gel material capable of repairing damaged heart tissue after a heart attack.
The all-Canadian innovation is an “unprecedented leap forward” in addressing repair of cardiac muscle after a heart attack, says Dr. Emilio Alarcon, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, a scientist in the UOHI Division of Cardiac Surgery, and one of the lead authors of a recently published paper in Nature Communications.
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