The adult human heart was believed incapable of replacing the muscle cells destroyed by a heart attack. A team at the ...
Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A ...
Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...
A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has ...
A sweeping single-nucleus atlas reveals how human hearts lose cellular balance with age and points to PRDM16 as a potential molecular target for future cardiac aging research. Study: ...