Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that ...

STED microscopy of an isolated heart muscle cell. Shown is the localisation of the membrane repair protein dysferlin (magenta) along the filigree membrane network within the muscle cell (caveolin ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to ...

Rather than propping up the heart with medications or implantable pumps, Willerson and his team, as well as others studying stem cell heart therapy, hope to regrow muscle tissue. Willlerson ...

The engineered heart patches, each one containing about 200 million cells embedded in a collagen hydrogel, built new muscle cells and improved the heart’s pumping function, the study found.

Heart muscle cells grown from stem cells show promise in monkeys with a heart problem that typically results from a heart defect sometimes present at birth in humans, according to new research ...

A muscle patch crafted from stem cells has improved cardiac function in monkeys with heart disease. It is now being tested in a small number of people, with early results from the first recipient ...

The ability of the human heart to renew itself by regenerating its muscle cells, myocytes, is very limited. But what happens to this capability when the heart is damaged by severe heart failure ...

Heart muscle grafts engineered from induced pluripotent stem cells enhanced cardiac function in rhesus macaques with heart failure, while encouraging data from a single patient support ongoing ...

Researchers studied myocytes (heart muscle cells) from the hearts of 13 patients, four to 12 days after their heart attacks, and from the hearts of 10 patients who did not have cardiovascular disease.

Heart muscle cells grown from stem cells show promise in monkeys with a heart problem that typically results from a heart defect sometimes present at birth in humans, according to new research ...