# Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxSeattle
- Speaker: Chuck Murry
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/chuck_murry_can_we_regenerate_heart_muscle_with_stem_cells)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The heart is one of the least regenerative organs in the human body -- a big factor in making heart failure the number one killer worldwide. What if we could help heart muscle regenerate after injury? Physician and scientist Chuck Murry shares his groundbreaking research into using stem cells to grow new heart cells -- an exciting step towards realizing the awesome promise of stem cells as medicine.

## Lectures

1. [Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/chuck_murry_can_we_regenerate_heart_muscle_with_stem_cells/f7efce25719a), 15 min (TED's player)