News tagged with embryonic heart

The embryonic heart: Imaging life as it happens

Imagine being able to image life as it happens by capturing video of the embryonic heart before it begins beating. A professor at the University of Houston, in collaboration with scientists at Baylor College ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using own skin cells to repair hearts on horizon

A heart patient's own skin cells soon could be used to repair damaged cardiac tissue thanks to pioneering stem cell research of the University of Houston's newest biomedical scientist, Robert Schwartz.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study Results Suggest Adult Stem Cells May Help Repair Muscle Cells Damaged by Heart Attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Resul ...

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study suggests adult stem cells may help repair hearts damaged by heart attack

Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Results from t ...

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New strategy for mending broken hearts?

(PhysOrg.com) -- By mimicking the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle in a lab, Duke University bioengineers believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living "heart patch" ...

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created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells (w/ Video)

University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Human cardiac master stem cells identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified the earliest master human heart stem cell from human embryonic stem cells - ISL1+ progenitors - that ...

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Stem cell transplant in mouse embryo yields heart protection in adulthood

Stem cells play a role in heart muscle rejuvenation by attracting cells from the body that develop into heart muscle cells. They have been successfully used to halt or reverse cardiac injury following heart attack, but not ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Embryo's heartbeat drives blood stem cell formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have long wondered why the embryonic heart begins beating so early, before the tissues actually need to be infused with blood. Two groups of researchers from Children's Hospital ...

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How do you mend a broken heart? Maybe someday with stem cells made from your skin (Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A little more than a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists showed they could turn skin cells back into stem cells, they have pulsating proof that these "induced" stem cells can indeed form ...

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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