Heart regenerates after infarction - first trials with mice

Up until today scientists assumed that the adult heart is unable to regenerate. Now, researchers and cardiologists from the Max Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charite (Germany) have been able to show that this dogma no longer holds true. Dr Laura Zelarayan and Assistant Professor Dr Martin W. Bergmann were able to show that the body's own heart muscle stem cells do generate new tissue and improve the pumping function of the heart considerably in an adult organism, when they suppress the activity of a gene regulator known as beta-catenin in the nucleus of the heart cells...

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