NHS officials estimate that around 50 people a year will receive treatment now that it has been approved for use for certain patients with severe sickle cell disease. Here patients have reacted to the ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results ...

Key cells in the brain, neurons, form networks by exchanging signals, enabling the brain to learn and adapt at incredible ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have developed a computer model to help scientists identify tumor-fighting immune cells in ...

Scientists have made stem cells into heart muscle cells, which grow together to form large patches measuring four inches ...

In the three-hour hearing, Kennedy fielded questions on his interpretation of Title X, late-term abortions, mifepristone, ...

Helping people remain healthy and fit for as long as possible will be crucial as populations around the world get older.

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...