Power Is Nothing Without Control: The Enduring Search for the Best Cell in Cardiac Cell Therapy at a Crossroads

Cardiac cell–based therapy, after a peak of untimely expectations of miraculous efficacy exceeding standard clinical practice, has faced the cardiological community and funding bodies with a predictable trough of disillusionment.

In the light of more recent progresses, the field is by contrast moving toward a competitive differentiation phase, in which the resolution of the complex matching between potency of cell therapeutics and heart disease pathophysiology has the potential to make a difference for the most challenging unmet clinical needs in cardiovascular medicine.

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1. Bassetti B, Capogrossi MC, Pompilio G. Power Is Nothing Without Control: The Enduring Search for the Best Cell in Cardiac Cell Therapy at a Crossroads. Circ Res 2016; 119(9):988-991. Go to PubMed