Graduate students whiz around this slimy beating heart and crawl under the tubes connected to the apparatus cradling the organ as a Medtronic scientist prods a snaking tool around its interior. This ...

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

Another great Valentine's decoration idea is to fill a bowl or tray with yarn-wrapped hearts. Home Made Lovely has an easy ...

In "remarkable" work, a patch of engineered heart muscle cells was used to strengthen a patient's heart before transplant.

Cardiologists reveal the unexpected symptoms of clogged arteries and underlying heart disease that you should know about. The ...

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

Given the importance of hemodynamic considerations in heart failure treatment ... cardiac muscle, lung tissue, chest wall fat, and air; and 2) dynamic impedance, which is caused by changing ...

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

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

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

Prior to their research in humans, the research team tested the patches on monkey hearts, monitoring the progress every three ...