Most of our organs contain enough stem cells to repair and regenerate themselves after injuries. But not the heart, that most central of muscles. And finding a way to compensate for that fact has become a life’s mission for Doris Taylor, a new arrival at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. Taylor is a pioneer in regenerative medicine, having arrived last year from the University of Minnesota, where she gained international renown for her work in whole-organ decellularization. That’s the process of removing living cells from the organs of lab animals in order to strip them down to a matrix of tissue that can act as the scaffolding for new organs.
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