Items Tagged ‘cardiac’
September 22, 2015
HLHS Program Hosts Third Annual ‘Feel the Beat’ Event Oct. 17
FEEL THE BEAT Saturday, October 17, 2015 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN ‘Feel the Beat’ is a fun-filled day featuring new and exciting research taking place in the Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), connecting families to others in the HLHS community and providing […]
Tags: cardiac, Charlie the Courageous, Chris Moir, Congenital Heart Disease, Ethan Bortnick, Events, HLHS, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Mayo Clinic, Pediatrics, regenerative medicine, research
November 25, 2013
First-in-humans study introduces next generation cell therapy
Translating a Mayo Clinic stem-cell discovery, an international team has demonstrated that therapy with cardiopoietic (cardiogenically-instructed) or “smart” stem cells can improve heart health for people suffering from heart failure. This is the first application in patients of lineage-guided stem cells for targeted regeneration of a failing organ, paving the way to development of next […]
Tags: Andre Terzic, C-CURE, cardiac, Cardio3, Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine, stem cells