{"id":247426,"date":"2026-11-15T07:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-repair-damaged-heart-tissue-in-breakthrough-for-millions"},"modified":"2026-11-15T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:11:13","slug":"scientists-repair-damaged-heart-tissue-in-breakthrough-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-repair-damaged-heart-tissue-in-breakthrough-for-millions","title":{"rendered":"Scientists REPAIR damaged heart tissue in breakthrough for millions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HEART muscle has been \u2018regrown\u2019 for the first time in a huge scientific breakthrough, giving hope to millions who have heart damage.<\/p>\n<p>Around one million Brits are living with heart failure due to the muscles becoming too weak or stiff to pump blood effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Heart failure can happen for a number of different reasons, including heart attack, heart disease and cardiomyopathy, and studies indicate that around half of those affected sadly die within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEART muscle has been \u2018regrown\u2019 for the first time in a huge scientific breakthrough, giving hope to millions who have heart damage. Around one million Brits are living with heart failure due to the muscles becoming too weak or stiff to pump blood effectively. Heart failure can happen for a number of different reasons, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}