Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we cannot grow new limbs, our bodies still react in pretty miraculous ways when ...

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

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

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

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

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

EHM allografts restore heart muscle safely, offering a breakthrough in heart failure treatment with no arrhythmia risk.

The shrew's resting heart rate can reach up to 17 beats per second, equivalent to about 1,020 beats per minute. In comparison, the average human resting heart rate is around 60 to 100 beats per ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived ...

An enzyme called Ubiquitin-specific peptidase 5 is a key factor in protein quality in heart muscle cells ...

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