A BRITISH research team led by a world-renowned heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time.

If animal trials this year prove successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for people suffering from heart disease within three years, the Guardian newspaper reported.

The team, led by Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, at the heart science centre at London’s Harefield hospital, has grown tissue that works in the same way as the valves in human hearts.

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