MSU researchers have created the first human heart-like “organoids” that enable the study of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib. The models also enable new ways of evaluating heart development, diseases ...
Building a Miniature Human Heart The work started in 2020, when MSU scientist Aitor Aguirre and his team began growing three dimensional heart organoids from donated human stem cells. These stem cells ...
The findings suggest humans also have a limited capacity for heart repair. For many years, scientists believed the human heart could not repair itself after serious damage. A new study from Australia ...
Aitor Aguirre receives funding from the NIH, AHA, Corewell-MSU Alliance Foundation and HVI. Aleksandra Kostina and Brett Volmert do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...
Adult human hearts can regenerate muscle cells after myocardial infarction New heart cells form by division of existing cardiomyocytes Discovery reshapes future heart failure and recovery therapies A ...