Finding a Master Heart Cell
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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TUESDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting an advance in tissue engineering techniques that has helped them move a step closer toward a living replacement heart valve for children.
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Researchers at MIT have used rat cells to grow dime-sized swatches of heart tissue that twitch like a beating heart when an electrical current passes through them.
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A protein produced by the heart during its development can minimise heart attack damage, research suggests.
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Researchers confirm a link between mitochondrial defects and heart disease in mice -- a discovery that could eventually help prevent heart disease in humans.
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A protein that the heart produces during its development could be redeployed after a heart attack to help the organ repair itself, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
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A man's testicles might be a source of stem cells to help him fight serious diseases, US scientists have shown.
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First, researchers used soap to wash out most of the cells from a rat's heart. Then they injected new cells to the shell that was left and added a pacemaker to teach the cells to pump like a heart. The result was a new heart. The process -- likened to gutting and rebuilding a house -- may take scientists a step closer to offering new options to the sickest patients.
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Heart cells grown from human embryonic stem cells have the potential to be biological pacemakers. Researchers at the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel have demonstrated that when the embryonic
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A new nanoscale tool reveals strong electric fields inside cells.
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Biological heart pacemakers made from human embryo cells have been successfully tested in pigs, raising the possibility that tissue transplants could in future replace electronic pacemakers.
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Scientists have developed a way to produce a pure source of muscle cells, a technique that might one day prove useful for treating muscle-related diseases.
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Possible stem cells identified in the mouse pancreas could hold the key to new treatments for type 1 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada believe that the cells
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Scientists turn embryonic stem cells into retinal cells for the first time. The groundbreaking work could be tested to treat human blindness in two years if all goes well. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Pulsing transplanted heart cells  with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac  cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch,  U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Scientists discover a groundbreaking method for sorting various types of stem cells using electrophoresis.
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Cells critical to sperm development have been grown in the lab and used to father baby mice, US researchers say. They said the development could lead to easier ways to genetically manipulate animals, and said