Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a transplant, scientists have shown. In a major breakthrough, 15 patients suffering ...

Researchers have developed engineered heart muscle allografts from stem cells, showing promising results in repairing heart ...

Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab ... enhancing and thickening the heart ...

Heart transplant is a scary and serious surgery with a high cost, but for patients with heart failure it can be the only ...

EHM allografts restore heart muscle safely, offering a breakthrough in heart failure treatment with no arrhythmia risk.

Slower gait speed, but not handgrip strength or muscle mass, is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular outcomes ...

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

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

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a human patient, with trials ahead.

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the thickness of the heart wall, helping it to contract better to pump blood ...

Researchers from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical ...

Heart transplant is a scary and serious surgery with high cost, but for patients with heart failure it can be the only option for cure.