[Does so]

"...The team then induced heart attacks in live mice ..."

I don't know how scientists did that, unless they have bred mice that can be triggered for heart attacks.

Anyway, they could use my BIL. He relates that while relaxing on a porch, a mouse approached. The mouse looked directly at him and keeled over, dead.

:-/

[LukeL]

I see one problem here. The heart and brain have cells that don’t divide rapidly and for good reason, you don’t want swelling or hypertrophy to occur in such vital organs, the brain because of the confined area and the heart beacause the electrical system is very complicated and precise and arrhthymias can easily occur if there is an abundance of abnormal cells.

[Smokin' Joe]

My Father had a major myocardial infarction over a decade ago, leaving a fairly large area of his heart scar tissue.

After a decade of participating in a program which his cardiologist figured no one would make it past the first year, the dye shot showed new blood vessel development in the scarred area, indicating some regeneration. The natural process is slow, but it happens. Accelerating that too much could be bad, but if the regeneration could be regulated there might be benefit.

[khelus]

Cool - if they con control the regeneration.

Thanks for the post