When a patient is experiencing heart failure, a leading cause of death worldwide, they begin to lose healthy and functioning cardiac cells. Heart failure causes these once-flexible cells to develop ...

Think of them as the Energizer Bunnies of the heart, tiny natural batteries that keep this vital organ beating 100,000 times a day as it pumps 2,000 gallons of blood throughout the human body. That's ...

A new review published in Genes & Diseases highlights macrophage-targeted therapy as a promising frontier in cardiac regeneration and myocardial repair. The findings underscore the critical role of ...

Can the heart physiology of zebrafish help treat human heart conditions? This is what a recent study published in Biology Open hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Utah ...

An international research team, coordinated by academics from the University of Bologna and the IRCCS - Policlinico Sant’Orsola Hospital, has identified a key growth factor capable of exerting a ...

Two commonly used FDA-approved antibiotics have been shown to induce mammalian cardiomyocyte proliferation and heart regeneration. Through a mixture of biochemical and computational screening, ...

Australian researchers reported that human heart muscle cells divide after heart attacks, a finding with implications for cardiac care. The University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ...

Researchers in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia, and collaborating institutions report a ...

A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals, including some fish and amphibians, can clear cardiac scar tissue and regrow damaged muscle as adults. Scientists have ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...