In a clinical study, TERT up‐regulation facilitated growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11)‐mediated restoration of VEGFR2+/CD133+ cells isolated from older adult patients who had suffered myocardial infarctions via eNOS and SMAD 2/3 signalling (Zhao et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene GDF11 and myocardial infarction.