Cardiac Patch for a Broken Heart

Roland Piquepaille writes "People who suffered from heart attacks or other heart failures often need transplants because their hearts are essentially non-functioning. But imagine what would happen if it was possible to engineer living heart tissues to fix these broken hearts? This is what bioengineers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City are starting to make. According to HealthDay News, their patches for broken hearts are made of heart tissue grown in the lab. Right now, animal trials are just starting and it will take at least a decade before human trials begin. But when these living bandages are ready for cardiac care, they'll have the potential to save millions of lives in the world every year."

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No, the cat does not "got my tongue."

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

> Right now, animal trials are just starting and it will
> take at least a decade before human trials begin. But
> when these living bandages are ready for cardiac care,
> they'll have the potential to save millions of lives
> in the world every year.

While I can see engineering taking awhile to develop something useful to humans, keep in mind that every year delayed "proving it" to arrogant government officials kills millions a year. Now explain to me why exactly they are a friend to humanity again?

One good cure for something like this, that's delayed a few years, delayed because of FDA-type bureaucracy will slaugter more people than all those the FDA "protects", even allowing for the wildest, slobbering socialist evils-of-corporations fantasies put together over the last 5 decades .

But it feels good, I guess, so that isn't actually happening. Couldn't be.