Stem cell-derived heart patches show promise for heart failure treatment
Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a human patient, with trials ahead.
‘Breakthrough’ stem-cell patches strengthened a woman’s failing heart
Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.
Scientists use stem cells to develop muscle patches for unhealthy hearts
Muscle patches generated from stem cells helped ease heart problems in monkeys and a human patient, in a potential advance towards improving treatments for the scourge of cardiac failure. Rhesus macaques’ heart functions improved using the technique,
Scientists trial patch to mend failing hearts
The technology could give new hope to millions of people with advanced heart failure whose treatment options are currently limited, the German researchers say. Based on early results of a small trial in humans and promising tests in monkeys,
Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts
Although the Nobel Prize for induced stem cells was handed out over a decade ago, the therapies have been slow to follow. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, however, a group of German researchers is now describing tests in primates of a method of repairing the heart using new muscle generated from stem cells.
Beating muscle patch keeps heart failure patients alive for years
Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a transplant, scientists have shown.
Muscle patches made of stem cells can repair heart injuries
"The latest findings highlight the potential of tissue patches derived from stem cells to treat heart failure, which remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide". Muscle patches made with stem cells can help repair heart injuries such as heart failures without adverse effects,
How the virus behind COVID-19 can harm your blood vessels and your heart
The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.
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Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S.
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Scot Pollard’s heart was failing — and a new one wasn’t easy to find
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When Calls the Heart Season 12 is changing the one thing fans have always loved
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Purple Heart, once stored in safe deposit box, delivered to family of deceased Iowan
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York County World War II veteran receives Purple Heart after 80 years
Days shy of his 101st birthday, Sgt. Harold "Bud" Pressel stood in front of a full house at the American Legion in Dallastown ...
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When Calls the Heart may never come back to Netflix and there’s a simple reason
Netflix users haven’t been able to stream When Calls the Heart for years, and there’s one reason it may never return to the ...
Inside the lab that’s the beating heart of Medtronic’s product pipeline
At the University of Minnesota, researchers keep hearts alive outside the body for hours. Medtronic uses them to develop ...