Inside bioink development for 3D bioprinting functional heart tissue for drug testing, future clinical transplantation.

Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A new observation in living human samples complicates that picture: heart ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that human heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack. The finding overturns the idea that damaged areas of the heart are completely incapable of ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has ...

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Lynn Yap of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered new insights into how unspecialized cells, also ...