News articles tagged with 'cardiomyocyte'
Human stem cells from fat tissue fuse with rat heart cells and beat
— 1 Mar 2011 19:03 | HealthIf Dr Doolittle is famous for talking to animals, then here's a story that might make him hold his tongue: According to new research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org),…
Newborn heart muscle can grow back by itself, UT Southwestern researchers have found
— 26 Feb 2011 17:09 | HealthIn a promising science-fiction-meets-real-world juxtaposition, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely…
Skin cells help to develop possible heart defect treatment in first-of-its-kind Stanford study
— 10 Feb 2011 19:40 | HealthUsing skin cells from young patients who have a severe genetic heart defect, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have generated beating heart cells that carry the same…
Gene alteration in mice mimics heart-building effect of exercise
— 3 Jan 2011 16:17 | HealthBy tweaking a single gene, scientists have mimicked in sedentary mice the heart-strengthening effects of two weeks of endurance training, according to a report from Dana-Farber Cancer…
Gladstone scientists discover new method for regenerating heart muscle by direct reprogramming
— 6 Aug 2010 07:56 | HealthScientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found a new way to make beating heart cells from the body's own cells that could help regenerate damaged…
Duke scientists uncover cells that mend a broken heart
— 25 Mar 2010 12:28 | HealthHumans have very limited ability to regenerate heart muscle cells, which is a key reason why heart attacks that kill cells and scar heart tissue are so dangerous…
Zebrafish study with human heart implications
— 25 Mar 2010 11:28 | HealthBony fish like the tiny zebrafish have a remarkable ability that mammals can only dream of: if you lop off a chunk of their heart they swim sluggishly for a few days but within a month…
New strategy for mending broken hearts?
— 11 Oct 2009 13:04 | HealthBy mimicking the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle in a lab, Duke University bioengineers believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living 'heart…
Stem cells not the only way to fix a broken heart
— 23 Jul 2009 17:37 | HealthResearchers appear to have a new way to fix a broken heart. They have devised a method to coax heart muscle cells into reentering the cell cycle, allowing the differentiated adult cells…
Early heart attack therapy with bone marrow extract improves cardiac function
— 30 Jun 2009 14:39 | HealthA UCSF study for the treatment of heart failure after heart attack found that the extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for…