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

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

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 ...

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

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

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived ...

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 ...

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 ...