SINGAPORE - For people who have damaged heart muscle, recovery is usually very limited.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and their foreign counterparts are working on giving such patients more treatment options.
Duke-NUS Medical School researchers first combined a protein associated with the heart muscle, called laminin-221, with human embryonic stem cells. The heart muscle was able to increase the heart function from 60 per cent to 80 per cent, and this lasted for the study duration of 12 weeks, added Dr Lynn Yap, a senior research fellow at the school's Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Programme.
The ongoing study, which started in 2013, also involved researchers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands.
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