{"id":1985,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/lab-grown-patch-could-treat-heart-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","slug":"lab-grown-patch-could-treat-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/lab-grown-patch-could-treat-heart-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown patch could treat heart failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-30 15:08:50<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A lab-grown patch could be a lifeline for heart failure sufferers.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have used stem cells and turned them into heart muscles and when they grow together, it creates patches that are 10cm by 5cm.<BR><br \/>\nThese can be pumped on their own in laboratories, and two of the patches can be put onto the heart to make it pump at a stronger rate.<BR><br \/>\nThey do not cause irregular heartbeats &#8211; which is a common side effect when heart muscle cells are injected into the heart.<BR><br \/>\nThe patches have been tested on rhesus macaques monkeys, and the results found that they are both safe and promising.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor James Leiper, director of research at the British Heart Foundation, said: &#8220;Further clinical trials in larger numbers of patients are needed to determine the effectiveness of the heart patch in humans.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;If these are positive, it could help to usher in a new era of heart failure treatment.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-30 15:08:50 A lab-grown patch could be a lifeline for heart failure sufferers. Scientists have used stem cells and turned them into heart muscles and when they grow together, it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}