Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A new observation in living human samples complicates that picture: heart ...

Researchers have discovered a new cell type that may help regulate blood vessel growth in the heart during development and in ...

My older sister was recently diagnosed with thickened heart muscle, and her doctor recommended a procedure called a "septal ...

New research shows that salvianolic acid B, a polyphenol from red sage, protects human heart muscle cells from high-glucose ...

A hospital in Japan has carried out the world's first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells ...

In exploratory analyses at Month 12, among individuals with LGMD2I/R9 (FKRP-related) with elevated HS troponin I at baseline, 100% treated with ...

Myocardial fibrosis—scarred heart muscle—was linked with increased risk of irregular heart rhythms among male endurance athletes, according to a new study published in the Circulation: Cardiovascular ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a previously unknown cell type in the zebrafish heart that appears to ...

Transferring mitochondria from a patient's healthy skeletal muscle to damaged, ischemic heart tissue has been shown to restore heart muscle, increase energy production, and improve ventricular ...

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Lynn Yap of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered new insights into how unspecialized cells, also ...

When you hear the term "regenerative medicine," what kind of image comes to mind?Regenerative medicine, which has long been ...

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