The cells that make up the embryo during the early stage of development can turn into any tissue of the adult organism..

Japanese doctors allowed to treat heart disease with reprogrammed stem cells. It should be noted that this is only the second time such a scheme has been implemented..

The above-mentioned cells can be obtained by specialists from differentiated tissue cells, for example, skin, or blood, returning to their state, which is similar to embryonic. The head of the scientific team, cardiac surgeon Yoshiki Sawa from the Osaka Institute, says that the above therapy can heal various damage to the heart that accumulates as a result of the appearance of plaques in the vessels or during a heart attack..

Experiments on pigs show that the result of transplanting such cell layers stimulates the functioning of the organ..

aspect. net.