These heart cells rupture and leak DNA, which sparks a damaging immune response. This breakthrough challenges long-held ...

A potential strategy introduces an entirely new type of therapy capable of addressing previously ‘undruggable’ targets within ...

The development of novel therapeutics offers great hope for the fight against widespread diseases such as cancer, but they ...

These putative cardiac stem cells are clonogenic and have the capacity ... possible despite major hurdles—including expansion in culture, phenotyping, genotyping, engraftment and survival ...

Experiments revealed that the researchers' fish swim bladder–based hydrogel enhances cardiac cell adhesion and stretching while promoting new blood vessel formation and causing immune cells to ...

Cardiac stem cell research has a turbulent history. Studies revealing the presence of regenerative progenitors in adult rodents’ hearts formed the basis of numerous clinical trials, but several ...

A German medical team has developed and tested a possible treatment for people with severe heart failure that could ...

The therapy utilizes a patient's own bone marrow cells, delivered directly into the heart muscle using a minimally invasive catheter-based procedure, intended to enhance microvascular function ...