A heart can never rest. That creates a problem for a heart that has lost muscle tissue. “Skeletal muscle has a significant ...

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

Despite the prevalence of heart disease, many people are still unclear about how genetics can impact heart disease.

Fifteen people with advanced heart failure ... heart walls and strengthened pumping power over another three to six months. The cells were directed to differentiate into heart muscle cells and ...

Nonetheless, some people may not even know they have heart disease until they experience a heart attack or stroke or are ...

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 ...

Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab ... enhancing and thickening the heart wall, which improved the pumping of the whole heart. Heart failure is the ...

The researchers have implanted similar muscle patches into 15 people so far, and hope to recruit more participants. An estimated 60 million people worldwide are living with heart failure ...

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with advanced heart failure. In 2021, after all possible treat ...

During the surgery, the woman's heart was implanted with tiny patches of heart muscle ... with heart failure; the patches tested on monkeys were grown with monkey stem cells. Six months later, several ...

High blood pressure can lead to many serious health problems, such as heart attack, heart failure, stroke ... beta-1 receptors found in the heart muscle. Nonselective: These block both beta ...