With a new $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators are moving closer to their goal of developing a biological pacemaker that can treat ...

According to the researchers, the data obtained can become the basis for the development of safe protocols for cardiac cell ...

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Researchers have succeeded in turning ordinary cardiac muscle cells into specialized ones that deliver a steady heartbeat using a gene therapy procedure they predict ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — No batteries required: Scientists are creating a biological pacemaker by injecting a gene into the hearts of sick pigs that changed ordinary cardiac cells into a special kind that ...

Scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network, have developed the first functional pacemaker cells from human stem cells, paving the way for alternate, ...

Scientists from the Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA, USA) recently explored adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors carrying the T-box transcription factor 18 (TBX18) ...

A multidisciplinary research team has revealed that the circadian clock -- the biological pacemaker that governs daily rhythms in physiological processes, including immune functions -- can be ...

A single gene, inserted into the apex of the heart, can convert normal cardiac muscle cells into those that control its electrical function, a study found. The findings from laboratory experiments and ...