There appears to be a new strategy for mending broken hearts.

• Position: HEALTH BEAT - Brief article

There appears to be a new strategy for mending broken hearts: By mimicking the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle, bioengineers at Duke University, Durham, N.C., believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living "heart patch" to repair cardiac tissue damaged by disease. Explains Brian Liau of the Pratt School of Engineering: "Adding cardiac fibroblasts to the growing...