The adult mammalian myocardium has a robust intrinsic regenerative capacity because of the presence of cardiac stem cells (CSCs). Despite being mainly composed of terminally differentiated ...

Direct cardiac reprogramming is a new technology which converts a somatic non-myocyte directly into an induced cardiomyocyte (iCM ... gene regulatory and epigenetic mechanisms underlying the direct ...

More information: Jodi Scholz et al, Human Stem Cell–Derived Cardiomyocytes Integrate Into the Heart of Monkeys With Right ...

Cardiomyopathy is characterized by myocardial fibrosis and myocyte hypertrophy, the cause of which is often unknown. Chronic heart failure is a progressive disease with a high mortality if left ...