{"id":31904,"date":"2024-02-21T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/?p=31904"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:29:51","slug":"stem-cells-grow-heart-in-a-dish-heart-disease-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2024\/02\/stem-cells-grow-heart-in-a-dish-heart-disease-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cells Used to Grow ‘Heart in a Dish’: Hailed as Heart Disease Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]\n

It was announced this week that researchers at the University of East London had managed to grow a \u201cheart\u201d using stem cells.<\/span><\/p>\n

This breakthrough could be instrumental in paving the way for life-saving research into heart disease treatments, with stem cells playing a pivotal role in the future of cardiovascular research.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. In 2023 alone, 919,032 people died from cardiovascular disease. That\u2019s one person every 34 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

With coronary artery disease alone affecting around 1 in 20 adults, progress in cardiovascular medicine can\u2019t come soon enough. <\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Because the grown stem cell \u201cheart\u201d has the same characteristics as a normal human heart, scientists are hoping that it can be a more ethical, accurate alternative to the use of animal specimens in research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the latest development in a long line of investigations into the application of stem cells to grow heart tissue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last April, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London set about evaluating how human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) could be used to grow left ventricular heart muscle cells. <\/span>[2]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Their findings suggested that, with the right environment, stem cells are able to differentiate successfully into the cells that make up the left ventricle of the heart, the area most commonly affected by heart disease <\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In August of last year, a team of researchers from various Israeli institutions had grown a small, yet complete and beating, model of a heart using stem cells. They were even able to fit sensors to the model to monitor its behavior. <\/span>[4]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

These so-called organoid hearts, grown from stem cells, are incredibly useful in finding treatments and therapies for cardiovascular diseases because of their likeness to human hearts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although these \u201cgrown\u201d hearts are a lot smaller than human hearts, their construction and makeup reflects the different chambers, tissues and cells that make up a human heart far more accurately. This makes them better in experiments for developing medicine for heart disease than animal samples.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The team at The University of East London are also looking to develop an AI in conjunction with the stem cell heart to monitor intricate changes to cells that could indicate the onset of heart disease. <\/span>[5]<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With thousands of clinical trials currently underway for the application of cord blood and perinatal stem cells in regenerative medicine, it\u2019s possible that your baby\u2019s umbilical cord and placenta hold the key to unlocking their access to the treatments of the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Find out more about how storing your baby\u2019s stem cells could safeguard their health for life by downloading our FREE Info Kit below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sources<\/b><\/p>\n

[1] CDH International. (n.d.). CDH statistics<\/em> [Webpage]. Retrieved October 30, 2025, from<\/a> https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heart-disease\/data-research\/facts-stats\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[2] <\/span>Ingham, K. (2023, April 26). <\/span>A heartbeat in a dish \u2013 growing specialised heart cells<\/span><\/i>. Imperial College London. https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/244579\/heartbeat-dish-growing-specialised-heart-cells\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

[3] Nicola Dark, <\/span>et al<\/span><\/i>., Generation of left ventricle-like cardiomyocytes with improved structural, functional, and metabolic maturity from human pluripotent stem cells, Cell Reports Methods, Volume 3, Issue 4, 2023, 100456, ISSN 2667-2375<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[4] Ghosheh, M., Ehrlich, A., Ioannidis, K. et al. Electro-metabolic coupling in multi-chambered vascularized human cardiac organoids. Nat. Biomed. Eng 7, 1493\u20131513 (2023)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

[5] Keane, D. (2024, February 19). <\/span>Heart disease breakthrough as scientists grow ‘heart in a dish’ using stem cells in London lab<\/span><\/i>. The Standard. https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/university-east-london-scientists-heart-dish-stem-cells-b1139981.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ module_class=”down-arrow” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_color=”#bd144f” custom_padding=”0px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”RWP” module_id=”request-welcome-pack” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_layout=”dark” use_border_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n

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