Damaged Heart Strengthened Using New Gene Therapy Method, Weill Cornell Medical College, Baylor College of Medicine and Stony Brook University Medical Center Study
A cocktail of three specific genes can reprogram cells in the scars caused by heart attacks into functioning muscle cells, and the addition of a gene that stimulates the growth of blood vessels enhances that effect, said researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College, Baylor College of Medicine and Stony Brook University Medical Center in a report that appears online in the Journal of the American Heart Association.