Cardiac regeneration Archives - Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

The premise of regenerating heart tissue, which once seemed like an impossible dream, is getting closer almost daily.

Not too late to repair: gene therapy improves advanced heart failure in animal model

February 13, 2024 advanced heart failure, Cardiac regeneration, gene therapy, Research

This work has important implications for the large group of patients with advanced heart failure for whom there are currently no treatments to improve their condition.

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It’s Heart Month!

February 27, 2020 cardiac fibroblasts, Cardiac regeneration, heart failure, Heart month, heartbeat, Research

From the Labs wraps up Heart Month highlighting a selection of posts about heart-related research at Baylor. The following articles posted in 2019 reveal novel

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How Gata4 helps mend a broken heart

August 14, 2017 Cardiac regeneration, cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, fibrosis, Gata4, heart attack, heart failure, scar tissue, tissue reprograming

During a heart attack, blood stops flowing into the heart; starved for oxygen, part of the heart muscle dies. The heart muscle does not regenerate;