Researchers have identified a gene therapy that could prevent life-threatening arrhythmias by restoring the heart’s ...

Cardiac arrhythmias affect millions across the world and are responsible for a fifth of all deaths in the Netherlands.

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

A woman with a failing heart has been kept alive with the help of a new "breakthrough" stem-cell technology, scientists report. The 46-year-old woman had experienced a heart attack in 2016 and ...

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 ...

Cardiac arrhythmias affect millions across the world and are responsible for a fifth of all deaths in the Netherlands. Currently there are multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...