The heart can't heal itself but researchers hoped that by taking a small piece of the heart during bypass surgery that they'd be able to find heart stem cells, grow them in the lab and inject them ...

Heart muscle cells need exercise – even when they grow outside the human body. A new device designed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering uses a ...

University of Toronto faculty members performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario recently, using stem cells derived from the patient's own bone marrow, isolated completely within the ...