There’s no shortage of therapeutic possibilities for ITD-1 For years, scientists have been looking for a good source of heart cells that can be used to study cardiac function in the la... Read more
Could hold the key to finding cures for some of Africa’s most prevalent diseases A team of researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the first in Afr... Read more
It could take at least five to ten years before clinical trials could start For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogram... Read more
Eliminates the need for stem cell transplant Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown the ability to turn scar tissue that forms after a heart attack into heart muscle cells u... Read more
Will the same combination of genes work in human hearts? The latest research developments to reprogram scar tissue resulting from myocardial infarction (MI) into viable heart muscle cells, w... Read more
Max Planck scientists have used silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue. Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscl... Read more