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

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

A German medical team has developed and tested a possible treatment for people with severe heart failure that could ...

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

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

The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.

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

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

A revolutionary clinical trial has shown stem cell-derived muscle patches can be used to treat heart failure. The procedure ...

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 ...

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

During the surgery, the woman's heart was implanted with tiny patches of heart muscle cells, which had been grown from stem cells in a lab. These 10 patches, each comprised of about 400 million ...