“PDI is like a double agent,” Dr Shadfar explains. “In healthy cells, it repairs DNA and helps prevent disease. But in cancer ...

Nanoneedle tech could enable disease monitoring in real time, allowing clinicians to take multiple, repeatable tests from the ...

It’s probably just anxiety. Try to relax. The fog always returned. I felt doomed. Then I came across a small study in ...

News of patches made of stem cells to repair hearts is a promising development in cardiac diseases. But, how impactful is the new technique of stem cells acting as a patch for damaged hearts?

A new biological patch, designed from heart cells grown in the laboratory, could bring a glimmer of hope in the treatment of advanced heart failure. Implanted in about fifteen patients, this device ...

During the surgery, the woman's heart was implanted with tiny patches of heart muscle cells, which had been grown from stem cells in a lab. These 10 patches, each comprised of about 400 million ...

Image Credit: mi_viri/Shutterstock.com In a study published in Nature, researchers found that a stem cell-derived muscle patch can repair failing hearts without adverse effects, showing promising ...

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the thickness of the heart wall, helping it to contract better to pump blood ...

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 ...