Muscle patches generated from stem cells helped ease heart problems in monkeys and a human patient, in a potential advance ...

The adult human heart contains small populations of indigenous committed cardiac stem cells or multipotent cardiac progenitor cells, identified by their cell-surface expression of c-kit (the ...

Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.

Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...

A team of researchers led by Emory's Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow and survive in the ...

Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature. The ...

Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we cannot grow new limbs, our bodies still react in pretty miraculous ways when ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived ...

Members of Theme Six are developing stem cell and cellular reprogramming strategies to treat cardiovascular diseases such as infarction in situ. The goal is to use viral vectors to induce ...

EHM allografts restore heart muscle safely, offering a breakthrough in heart failure treatment with no arrhythmia risk.

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...