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

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

For decades, cardiology textbooks treated heart damage as permanent, a grim one-way street from heart attack to heart failure ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in ...

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 ...

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

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

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 ...

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

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. By its name and nature, heart failure doesn’t ...

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