A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

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

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

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

Chemotherapeutic agents are often used to treat cancer. They combat tumor growth, but also have a number of undesirable side ...

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

A team of researchers led by Emory's Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow and survive in the ...

Salk scientists identify protein BCL6 as a key regulator of muscle maintenance in mice; BCL6-enhancing therapies may prevent ...

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

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 ...

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