This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a human patient, with trials ahead.

A promising new approach involves the use of Engineered Heart Muscle (EHM) allografts derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) to repair damaged hearts. The study, led by Ahmad-Fawad ...

A woman with a failing heart has been kept alive with the help of a new "breakthrough" stem-cell technology, scientists ...

Firstly, the viral vector. The company uses a non-replicating ... gene therapies in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered heart tissue. “By using mini organoids that beat ...

The concept of the cardiac stem cell niche is valuable in conceptualizing why the heart does not heal itself fully following tissue necrosis: the process of tissue destruction destroys not only ...

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and ... neither uses a virus as a vector nor reprograms the skin cells first into pluripotent stem cells—may offer a new method ...