News of patches made of stem cells to repair hearts is a promising development in cardiac diseases. But, how impactful is the ...

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

A new biological patch, designed from heart cells grown in the laboratory, could bring a glimmer of hope in the treatment of ...

A German medical team has developed and tested a possible treatment for people with severe heart failure that could ...

Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature. The ...

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

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

Back in 2021, a 46-year-old woman with severe heart failure was given a lab-made patch made up of 800 million cells derived ...

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

The study is a milestone for the clinical application of the "heart patch" as an innovative treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure at the University Medical Center Göttingen ...

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

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 ...