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

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

Members of Theme Six are developing stem cell and ... loss of heart muscle after myocardial infarction. One current approach is to investigate gene pathways, many of which are important in heart ...

Professor Hiroaki Matsubara and colleagues from Kyoto University Hospital has regenerated stem cells from cardiac muscle cells. The cardiac muscle cells were obtained from the heart tissue of ...