Muscle patches generated from stem cells helped ease heart problems in monkeys and a human patient, in a potential advance ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...

Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature. The ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived ...

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

Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.

Intramuscular fat, contained within muscle tissue, increases the risk of serious heart disease, regardless of other risk ...

Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases ... metabolic flexibility in mouse cardiac tissue.

We are interested in exploiting the hydrogel environment to study mechanotransduction pathways as well as developing novel scaffolds combined with mechanical conditioning for tissue engineering. In ...

Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results ...

Increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, was independently associated with coronary microvascular function and major adverse CV ...

Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a ...