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Will heart valve tissue engineering change the world?

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  1. cardiac surgeon, Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Director of research at the Heart Science Center, Imperial College London, Harefield, UK

    M H Yacoub

  2. clinical epidemiologist for the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    J J M Takkenberg

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Yacoub, M., Takkenberg, J. Will heart valve tissue engineering change the world?. Nat Rev Cardiol 2, 60–61 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio0112

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