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Human heart muscle cells cease to multiply after birth, making any heart injury later in life a permanent one, reducing function and leading to heart failure. Now, however, researchers say they have ...

Reports on stem cell therapies for post-heart attack tissue repair have described at best modest success. Most clinical trials have used bone marrow-derived cells, which are thought to promote the ...

Scientists restored the function of heart muscles in aging fruit flies, according to a newly published study. The genetic complex identified in the research could lead to new treatments for heart ...

Since 2008, Ohio State University researcher Renzhi Han’s goal has been to perform gene surgery to correct Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive disease that results in cardiac defects in ...

Cardiologists and radiation oncologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis pioneered the use of radiation therapy - a strategy typically used against cancer - to treat patients ...

Researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, have used human embryonic stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hESC-CMs) to restore heart function in macaque monkeys with heart failure. The ...

AMES, Iowa - Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on aging heart muscles in fruit flies, a development that could lead to new therapies for older humans with heart disease. Hua ...