Their heart rate can exceed ... dogfights to control a prime patch of nectar-laden flowers. The tongue that sips from those flowers is a specialized organ, nearly transparent, and made up of ...

The wearable cardiac monitor maker VitalConnect has raised $100 million in new capital to aid in the development of its ...

Now a lab-grown patch of heart muscle engineered from induced pluripotent stem cells may hold promise. A paper published Wednesday in Nature describes success in rhesus macaques and in one patient ...

Dr Mukesh Goel, Senior Consultant, Cardiothoracic and Heart and Lung Transplant Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. News of patches made of stem cells to repair hearts is a promising ...

Scientists have developed lab-grown patches composed of beating heart muscle to aid patients with advanced heart failure. Tested successfully on animals and humans, the patches, made from donor ...

In a major breakthrough, 15 patients suffering from heart failure – their hearts had stopped pumping effectively – were implanted with patches grown from stem cells. The lab-grown living ...

German scientists developed a lab-made heart patch that shows promise in repairing damaged heart tissue, offering new hope to patients with severe heart failure, according to a recent study ...

SDI Productions/Getty Images New research suggests certain hormonal contraceptives may increase heart attack and stroke risks. The vaginal ring and skin patch were associated with the highest risk ...

The heart muscle patches are grown from millions of human stem cells Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature.

Researchers have shown that patches of muscle grown from stem cells can help to repair a failing heart, in a clinical trial that tested the procedure on a 46-year-old woman. The woman, who had a ...