Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium, is a type of muscle tissue that forms the heart. It contracts and releases involuntarily and keeps the heart pumping blood around the body. The human body ...

Twenty years after the initial description of a tissue engineered construct ... the complex structure of heart muscle and might, therefore, be amenable to industrial (eg, drug screening) and clinical ...

Those stem cells, which have the capacity to grow into any type of cell in the human body, were then stimulated to grow into cardiac muscle tissue. The growing heart was then placed inside a ...

They're growing viable heart tissue in the lab to create a small patch of cardiac muscle from the patient's own cells. The patch can be transplanted directly into a heart to repair damage or ...

In addition, muscle fibers were found to be more mature on the stiffer hydrogels. Decellularized cardiac tissues have also attracted significant attention for cardiac regeneration. In one study ...

New research from a collaboration between the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California Berkeley have come up with a new solution: miniaturized cardiac muscle tissue models made from ...

The problem with scar tissue on the heart is the fact that, unlike regular cardiac muscle tissue, it can't expand and contract. This means that the heart as a whole likewise can't expand and ...

A new biomaterial delivered to the heart soon after a heart attack can heal damaged tissue from the inside out. Heart attacks kill cardiac muscle tissue, scarring the heart and leaving permanent ...