Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

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

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

In a study whose results were published in ‘Nature’ recently, groundbreaking new technology helped to save a woman’s life.

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the ...

The study is a milestone for the clinical application of the "heart patch" as an innovative treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure at the University Medical Center Göttingen ...

Scientists have developed lab-grown patches composed of beating heart muscle to aid patients with advanced heart failure. Tested successfully on animals and humans, the patches, made from donor ...

Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a ...

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 ...

Lab-grown 'patches' could provide a lifeline for the one million people in the UK suffering from heart failure. Around half the sufferers of the condition, which leaves the heart unable to pump ...