by rss feed | Apr 21, 2016 | Heart Disease, News Feeds
New technique offers cheaper, faster method to create heart tissue for testing drugs and modeling disease.
by rss feed | Mar 4, 2016 | Heart Disease, News Feeds
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered how to make a new type of cell that is in between embryonic stem cells and adult heart cells, and that may hold the key to treating heart…
by rss feed | Mar 3, 2016 | Heart Disease, News Feeds
Stem cell treatment approved by FDA for human testing after research on laboratory rats shows cardiosphere-derived cells reverse a difficult-to-treat heart condition.
by rss feed | Feb 17, 2016 | Heart Disease, News Feeds
An in vitro model explains shortcomings in stem cell-driven therapies for heart disease and could be used to screen for more favorable stem cell-based strategies and new pharmacological and genetic…
by rss feed | Dec 18, 2015 | Heart Disease, News Feeds
Cambridge researchers have found the strongest evidence to date that human pluripotent stem cells — cells that can give rise to all tissues of the body — will develop normally once transplanted…
by rss feed | Nov 13, 2015 | Heart Disease, News Feeds
Johns Hopkins researchers report that a new study of mouse cells has revealed reasons why attempts to grow stem cells to maturity in the laboratory often fail, and provided a possible way to overcome…