About the research
About the research
During a heart attack, certain heart cells are damaged from which they will never recover. So a patient is forever left with a scar on his heart, which reduces the heart's pumping power. Lize Evens (UHasselt) investigates whether that scar can be repaired by allowing stem cells to evolve into heart cells.
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