Scientists have created a three-dimensional "heart-on-a-chip" (HOC) that could provide a breakthrough in the fight against the world's leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease. One major ...

More than 300,000 people suffer a heart attack in Germany every year. The heart muscle is then no longer supplied with sufficient blood and oxygen, and part of the tissue dies and scars. Unlike the ...

Animate Biosciences Reports Preclinical Data Showing Reduced Cardiac Scarring and Nearly Doubled Heart Function After Heart Attack.

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A deep molecular analysis of failing human hearts suggests diabetes may directly alter cardiac metabolism, but experts differ ...

UC labs are developing new treatments that don’t just prevent damage from getting worse, but — for the first time in medical ...

A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This groundbreaking ...

For generations, wise aunties and grandmothers have advised that the quickest path to the heart is through the stomach. Our ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren't so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate ...

New study reveals how influenza virus infiltrates heart tissue via specialised immune cells, triggering damaging interferon ...