"Damaged hearts could one day repair themselves, mouse study suggests"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/24/damaged-hearts-repair-themselves-mouse

“Newborn mice can regenerate 15% of their heart tissue, raising the prospect of treatments to regenerate human hearts”

In a recent investigation, it was discovered that the hearts of newborn mice can regenerate after an injury.

This discovery is really important, not only for animal medicine, also for human medicine, because the scientists knew that fish and amphibians could regenerate their hearts, but had no evidence of this in mammals.

In a recent study in US, showed that mice of one day old, could regenerate 15% heart tissue in three weeks, ability that was lost a week of age.

This increased hopes that the human heart also has the ability to regenerate and provide an opportunity to search drugs, genes or other factor that could awaken this potential in the heart of adult mice and eventually in humans.

Scientist say that the main problem of heart failure is the scar tissue, because this weakens the heart pumping ability, so advance in this field of medicine mean that more people survive heart attack than ever before.

In my opinion, for me this is a huge advance in medicine because it gives the opportunity to extend the life of people, but not only extend, but provides a good quality of life in patients who would benefit, so that this way they can live normally, without any limitation.