In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing ...

After developing heart failure, 52.6 percent of patients die within five years, and the most significant cause of heart failure is a heart attack, which affects more than 800,000 Americans each year.

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 ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack. Most survive, but at a cost. In the aftermath, the heart cells often stiffen in a process called myocardial fibrosis, a hidden ...

Millions of people around the world die from heart failure every year. In future, a laboratory-grown heart patch could help with severe cases of cardiovascular disease, say scientists behind a ...

Renowned visionary English physician William Harvey wrote in 1651 about how our blood contains all the secrets of life. “And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way ...

A critical review of cell-based and cell product-based therapies for the treatment of heart failure details 20 years of completed and ongoing clinical trials. While none has yet gained medical ...

Understanding the mechanisms behind cell death and survival is crucial when it comes to conditions like heart failure, which affects millions of people worldwide. Now, researchers from Japan have ...

Studying why heart cells are less likely to become cancerous can provide clues to improving heart regeneration and treatments for heart disease. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

You probably know someone who is affected by cancer. This disease results when cells divide uncontrollably and can make a person sick, sometimes very seriously. I’m a biologist who specializes in the ...

ATLANTA — What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed. Scientists discovered that after just eight days aboard the International Space Station, human heart cells ...