Tag: heart

Protein Treatment Repairs Heart Damage

By Amanda Schaffer | 07/24/2009 | 3 Comments

The treatment causes adult heart-muscle cells to proliferate and cardiac function to improve.

Healing the Heart with Bone-Marrow Cells

By Michael Day | 05/19/2009 | 0 Comments

A new treatment may help angina sufferers who are resistant to surgery and medication.

Making Heart Cells

By Karen Hopkin | 04/27/2009 | 0 Comments

A cocktail of proteins converts embryonic cells into cardiac cells that might someday replace damaged tissue.

Better Way to Wire Up Cells

By Katherine Bourzac | 04/21/2009 | 3 Comments

Nanowire arrays could be used for future medical implants.

Human Heart Grows New Cells

By Nora Schultz | 04/02/2009 | 0 Comments

Drugs that enhance this innate capability might help heal injured hearts.

Stretchy Electrodes Wire Up Cells

By Katherine Bourzac | 01/29/2009 | 0 Comments

New kinds of bioelectrodes will help researchers study beating hearts and brain trauma.

Internal External Defibrillator

By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 11/26/2008 | 0 Comments

A new device may offer a safer way to jump-start ailing hearts.

Patching Hearts

By Courtney Humphries | 11/03/2008 | 0 Comments

An artificial scaffold helps engineered heart cells better mimic real ones.

Peering into the Heart, Safely

By Tim Barribeau | 04/07/2008 | 1 Comment

An emerging technology could offer clearer pictures of the heart.

Snakelike Robots for Heart Surgery

By Kristina Grifantini | 04/04/2008 | 0 Comments

More-flexible robots could allow for less-invasive operations.

Genetic Variant Predicts Heart Disease Risk

By Apoorva Mandavilli | 01/30/2008 | 0 Comments

A newly identified risk factor for heart disease also seems to indicate which patients will benefit from popular statin therapies.

Growing New Hearts from Old

By Amanda Schaffer | 01/14/2008 | 1 Comment

Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.

Monitoring the Heart without Missing a Beat

By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 12/06/2007 | 0 Comments

A novel wireless EKG monitor could make diagnosing heart conditions much easier.

Machines Powered by Heart Muscles

By Kevin Bullis | 09/07/2007 | 0 Comments

Devices powered by living cells could lead to novel robots and new insights into how the heart works.

Stem Cells Repair Blood Vessels

By Emily Singer | 05/08/2007 | 0 Comments

A new method to boost growth of blood vessels with stem cells could improve cell therapies for diabetes and heart disease.