A research breakthrough has made a step forward to finding new treatments for heart failure.
A physician in Sydney, with US scientists, has successfully grown heart muscle cells to repair the damaged heart of a primate after a heart attack.
The growing epidemic of heart failure kills more than 20,000 Australians each year.
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Westmead Millennium Institute and University of Sydney researcher Dr James Chong told Samantha Yap, he aims grow heart muscle cells on human patients with heart failure.

