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

Much was promised in the late 1990s, but the challenge of advances such as growing whole human organs has been difficult to deliver, writes Simon Roach ...

Heart muscle cells grown from stem cells show promise in monkeys with a heart problem that typically results from a heart defect sometimes present at birth in humans, according to new research from ...

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 ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking piece of technology has been hailed as the “holy grail” of treatment for one major health issue, which could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including embryonic and induced (hESCs and hiPSCs, respectively) lines, can generate a broad range of organoids, that is, three-dimensional self-organized ...

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 ...