A young fashion designer who needs weekly blood transfusions to stay alive has said a stem cell donor coming forward is her ...

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

People attending a football match will be asked to sign up to a stem cell register in the hope of finding a donor for a local ...

Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart repair with stem cell-derived ...

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 ...