A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the ...
A German medical team has developed and tested a possible treatment for people with severe heart failure that could ...
The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.
During the surgery, the woman's heart was implanted with tiny patches of heart muscle cells, which had been grown from stem cells in a lab. These 10 patches, each comprised of about 400 million ...
Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) - commonly known as bad cholesterol - have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease.
A revolutionary clinical trial has shown stem cell-derived muscle patches can be used to treat heart failure. The procedure ...
Now a lab-grown patch of heart muscle engineered from induced pluripotent stem cells may hold promise. A paper published Wednesday in Nature describes success in rhesus macaques and in one patient ...
Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a ...
Millions of people around the world die from heart failure every year. In future, a laboratory-grown heart patch could help with severe cases of cardiovascular disease, say scientists behind a ...
Study: Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans. Image Credit: mi_viri/Shutterstock.com In a study published in Nature, researchers found that a stem cell-derived ...