This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at least, that's what has long been presumed. Scientists in Australia have now ...

Scientists in Australia made an exciting new finding in a recent study.

University of California San Diego-led team has discovered that restoring a key cardiac protein called connexin‑43 in a mouse ...

New evidence reveals adult human hearts can regrow muscle cells after myocardial infarction, opening new possibilities for ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

A Tokyo-based startup said transplants of cardiac muscle cells that it engineered from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...

Sustainable engraftment of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) can be achieved by implanting patches of engineered heart muscle onto the surface of the heart under immune suppression. Evidence from ...

Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden-based biotech company Ncardia have joined forces to ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who arranged for 48 human bioengineered heart tissue samples to spend 30 days at the International Space Station report evidence that the low gravity conditions in ...

An Australian study has found that human heart muscle cells can regenerate after a heart attack, challenging long-held ...