ATLANTA — What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed. Scientists discovered that after just eight days aboard the International Space Station, human heart cells ...

Researchers created lab-made heart cells for "Body on a Chip" project. — -- Science fiction became reality after researchers from Wake Forrest University say they managed to turn stem cells into ...

The advanced drug testing system screens multiple potential therapies simultaneously in beating heart cells. An advanced robotic system at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is changing the way ...

Heart muscle cells grown from patient stem cells—known as human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes, or hiPSC-CMs—are a promising way to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks and ...

In research, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are derived from skin, urine, or blood samples and developed into other cells, like heart tissue, that researchers want to study. Because of the ...

Heart cells "really don't fare well in space," scientists have found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What effects does ...

Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beating heart ...

The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne and the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco have launched a new collaboration to solve childhood heart disease. Researchers from both ...