This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

A team of researchers led by Emory's Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow and survive in the ...

Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results ...

Scientists have developed lab-grown patches composed of beating heart muscle to aid patients with advanced heart failure. Tested successfully on anima ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...

A team of researchers led by Emory's Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow -and survive in the microgravity environment of space.

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

A group of scientists may have revealed how to mend a broken heart. Researchers from Germany and the US have developed small ...

Chunhui Xu was on hand at Cape Canaveral when the International Space Station's SpaceX Crew-8 mission launched in March 2024, but her excitement was ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...