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 ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in five deaths. The inability of ...

Heart cells grown in space showed stronger survival, better function, and boosted healing traits. Spaceflight changed key ...

Chunhui Xu and her team leveraged the ISS National Laboratory ® for cardiac cell research to accelerate the development of cell-based regenerative therapies that could one day reverse heart damage.

A scientific technique that rapidly increases the body's production of anti-inflammatory cells promoted healing from heart attacks in mice, according to a new study. Once adapted to treat humans, the ...

A heart attack and broken heart syndrome share similar symptoms But the two are separate conditions requiring distinct ...

An all-new approach to treat heart failure. With eight clinical trial surgeries completed, we explore Osaka University's ...

A research team at the University of Virginia Health has made an exciting discovery that could lead to new treatments for ...

Even though technical advances have made it possible to grow many of the individual components in the lab—for example, heart muscle cells, or blood vessel cells—putting these cells together in an ...

For millions of people, losing muscle isn't just about weakness; it's about losing independence. Whether caused by Duchenne ...

The Danish drugmaker has acquired exclusive rights outside Japan to Heartseed's HS-001 therapy based on heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) derived from human stem cells, and is due to start the ...

The first examined how stem cells differentiate into heart muscle cells, while the second looked at the maturation of heart muscle cells into tissue-like structures. Insight gained from the team ...