Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have ...

Human heart cells have been coaxed into regenerating for the first time in a breakthrough that could mend failing organs.

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 ( CCNA2 ), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury including a ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that could one day transform the treatment of heart failure.