In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat ageing-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to ...

In children, can being treated for cancer have consequences for the heart—namely, cardiac arrythmias? A new study by ...

Researchers found that newborn immune cells regenerate heart tissue by producing thromboxane. Mimicking this process in ...

Researchers from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical ...

People with type 2 diabetes who were given ketones before exercise had increased cardiac output, stroke volume, and ...

Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult ...

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

In a study published today in the journal Immunity, researchers describe how immune system cells recognize and eat dying ...

A ‘heart patch’ recently received enthusiastic coverage in the media. A scientist who carried out similar experiments is ...

A new biological patch, designed from heart cells grown in the laboratory, could bring a glimmer of hope in the treatment of ...

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with ...