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

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

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 ...

The study made patches with pluripotent stem cells, which can generate sufficient cardiac muscle cells to allow a graft on to the heart Muscle patches generated from stem cells helped ease heart ...

A ‘heart patch’ recently received enthusiastic coverage in the media. A scientist who carried out similar experiments is ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have shown that patches of muscle grown from stem cells can help to repair a failing heart, in a clinical trial that tested the procedure on a 46-year-old woman. The woman, who had a ...

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 ...

In a study whose results were published in ‘Nature’ recently, groundbreaking new technology helped to save a woman’s life.

But there is hope from heart muscle patches which scientists have created using stem cells, and which the British Heart Foundation said could 'usher in a new era of heart failure treatment'.