It is the ultimate cure for diseased hearts. When the muscle softly beating behind the ribcage starts to fail – grow a new one. Professor Magdi Yacoub, Britain's best-known cardiac surgeon, who pioneered heart transplants in the 1980s, champions a new approach to heart surgery involving patients growing their own heart tissue to replace damaged parts of the existing organ.
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Monday, September 03, 2007
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