Regeneration of myocardium

Patent Pending Until recently, it was commonly believed that cardiac muscle cells could not be regenerated. However, a study reported in the April 3, 2009 issue of Science contradicts that belief.[10] Olaf Bergmann and his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm tested samples of heart muscle from people born before 1955 had very little cardiac muscle around their heart, many showing with disabilities from this abnormality.