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

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

Adding neuromuscular electrical stimulation to physiotherapy boosts functional performance in hospitalized patients with ...

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

Science reveals that your lower legs act as a secondary circulatory pump, pushing blood against gravity to protect your heart ...

Cardiac complications in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are the result of cardiac muscle involvement that accompanies the deterioration of skeletal muscle in the disease. The use of ...

Japanese researchers have transplanted human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in a primate model of myocardial infarction and were able to restore heart muscle and function in monkeys. Developed ...