The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to ...

If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of truth to the popular misconception – every seven years or so, they would all ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.

Research led by the Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute in Japan has discovered a surprising way cancer evades the immune ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results ...

Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of ...

Researchers have revolutionized cancer immunotherapy by developing a way to grow T cells in the lab that live longer and ...

A new way to grow T cells in the lab enables them to live longer and better destroy cancer cells in a mouse model of melanoma ...