A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution – a "heart patch" made from stem cells that could provide a bridge to transplantation, or maybe even a permanent fix.

Now a lab-grown patch of heart muscle engineered from induced pluripotent stem cells may hold promise. A paper published Wednesday in Nature describes success in rhesus macaques and in one patient ...

Researchers from the universities of Porto and Coimbra have developed a smart heart patch that could one day help people recover after a heart attack.

German scientists developed a lab-made heart patch that shows promise in repairing damaged heart tissue, offering new hope to ...

The study is a milestone for the clinical application of the "heart patch" as an innovative treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure at the University Medical Center Göttingen ...

The heart muscle patches are grown from millions of human stem cells Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in the lab, say scientists writing in Nature.