As the most important muscle in our body, any serious issues with our heart are considered critical and reason for ...

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

Prolonged exposure to microgravity in space weakens the heart muscle and disrupts the heart’s rhythm, Johns Hopkins ...

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

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with ...

Sustainable engraftment of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes ... Although these data are exciting, the mechanisms underlying the tissue-level integration of the EHMs remain elusive.

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...

Intramuscular fat, contained within muscle tissue, increases the risk of serious heart disease, regardless of other risk ...

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

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

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

Now a lab-grown patch of heart muscle engineered from induced pluripotent stem cells may hold promise. A paper published Wednesday in Nature describes success in rhesus macaques and in one patient ...