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

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

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

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

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

ACM impedes the heart from pumping blood to the rest of the body, and is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young ...

When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood ...

Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden-based biotech company Ncardia have joined forces to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AD-NP1, a lab-made antibody that restores the body’s natural healing power, helping the heart and other organs recover after ...

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

An Australian study has found that human heart muscle cells can regenerate after a heart attack, challenging long-held ...