New possibilities for personalized medicine: patient stem cells used to make ‘heart disease-on-a-chip’

by rss feed | May 14, 2014 | Heart Disease, News Feeds

Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and ‘organ-on-a-chip’ technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease.

Mouse study points to potentially powerful tool for treating damaged hearts may lead to new insights into congenital heart defects

by rss feed | May 2, 2014 | Heart Disease, News Feeds

A type of cell that builds mouse hearts can renew itself, Johns Hopkins researchers report.

Heart muscle damaged from heart attacks regenerated by stem cell therapy in primates

by rss feed | May 2, 2014 | Heart Disease, News Feeds

Heart cells created from human embryonic stem cells successfully restored damaged heart muscles in monkeys.

Hope for new therapies for heart damage offered by stem cell study in salamanders

by rss feed | May 1, 2014 | Heart Disease, News Feeds

Imagine filling a hole in your heart by regrowing the tissue. While that possibility is still being explored in people, it is a reality in salamanders.

Heart disease patients may soon benefit from stem cell therapies

by rss feed | May 1, 2014 | Heart Disease, News Feeds

Stem cell therapies work as a complement to standard treatments, potentially cutting the number of deaths after a year, suggests evidence from the latest Cochrane review: stem cell therapy for…

Stem cell therapy ‘could reduce death from heart disease’

by rss feed | Apr 30, 2014 | Heart Disease, News Feeds

A new review from The Cochrane Collaboration provides ‘encouraging evidence’ that stem cell therapy may be effective against heart disease.