In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

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

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

While current clinical trials for cardiac regeneration using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) employ immunosuppressive regimens used in heart transplants, the precise ...

Researchers discovered a feedback loop between nerve cells, the immune system and the heart. They think it shows promise as a ...

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

Scientists in Australia have found that organ can regrow new cells to replace the damaged ones after an attack through ...

Heart attacks are often thought of as a plumbing issue, the result of a blockage preventing blood from flowing through one of ...

Euan Ashley's lab explores the intricate interactions of gene variants. Tiny "typos," or genetic mutations, can sneak into ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), March 28, 2025 – Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in five deaths. The inability of damaged heart muscle tissue to ...

Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it ...

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