February 19, 1999
Can Bioengineering Create a Human Heart?
Researchers are planning a massive, decade-long collaboration to produce a supply of implantable human organs
Michael V. Sefton has another solution for the thousands of people around the world who desperately need human transplants to replace their diseased hearts: A huge supply of new, implantable human hearts grown from scratch with biotechnology.
"The idea is to have hearts on a shelf," ready for implantation into a patient
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