For many patients who survive a heart attack, recovery is only the beginning. Structural and functional changes in the heart ...

Heart disease, the No. 1 killer of Americans, can affect people at any time across their lifespans—even from birth, when heart conditions are known as congenital heart defects. Regenerating tissue to ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived engineered heart muscle. The study is a milestone for the clinical ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people around the world die from heart failure every year. In future, a laboratory-grown heart patch could help with ...

Renowned visionary English physician William Harvey wrote in 1651 about how our blood contains all the secrets of life. “And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way ...

When we developed the ability to convert various cells into a stem cell, it held the promise of an entirely new type of therapy. Rather than getting the body to try to fix itself with its cells or ...

With the goal of rejuvenating their sickest patients and moving them from a bed back to normal life, Houston cardiologists will soon begin injecting stem cells directly into damaged hearts. Scientists ...

In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing with the wrong cell could mean the difference between a beating heart and one ...

A research team reported recently that heart muscle cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells can integrate into the hearts of monkeys with a state of pressure overload. Heart muscle cells grown ...

Study shows that cardiac spheroids, derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, can be easily transported and injected into damaged areas of the heart to promote its regeneration and recovery ...