In children, can being treated for cancer have consequences for the heart—namely, cardiac arrythmias? A new study by ...

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

and is a cardiac muscle grown in a laboratory from cardiac cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells embedded in a collagen hydrogel. The simulation of this treatment in monkeys was the ...

In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues ...

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

In a study published today in the journal Immunity, researchers describe how immune system cells recognize and eat dying ...

Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results from two of the first patients to get the treatment suggest that the ...

"The idea behind cell therapy is to regenerate new muscle," says Xu ... stress response and metabolic characteristics in human cardiac spheroids, Biomaterials (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.

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. In a major breakthrough, 15 patients suffering ...