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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...