Sentences with phrase «heart stem cells»

They used pharmaceutical drugs to catch and maintain heart stem cells at the cardiac precursor state before they developed into fully - functional heart cells.

And the new blood flow may have stimulated existing heart stem cells to differentiate into new heart muscle cells.

Another company, Belgium - based TiGenix, hopes to attack scar tissue before it forms by treating patients with a mixture of heart stem cells within seven days of a heart attack.

► In a Thursday ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick reported that the case brought by heart stem cell researchers Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri «against their institution,» Harvard Medical School and its affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), «for allegedly mishandling a misconduct investigation was dismissed by a federal judge in Massachusetts this week.

«How heart stem cells orchestrate regeneration.»

Then the team planted a mix of heart stem cells on that matrix.

Sean Wu, who studies heart stem cells at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, says the NIH notice prompted Stanford to urge scientists to be sure their experiments didn't violate the new rules.

«Rather than using heart stem cells or bone - marrow - derived stem cells, we chose a source of stem cells that's more easily extracted.

A * STAR researchers and colleagues have developed a method to isolate and expand human heart stem cells, also known as cardiac progenitor cells, which could have great potential for repairing injured heart tissue.

There might be a pool of heart stem cells that slowly churn out new muscle cells.

Coxsackie B virus (red) infects cells positive for the heart stem cell marker Sca - 1 (green).