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

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

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

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

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

Heart cells derived from human stem cells stained for muscle protein (green) and nuclei (blue). CREDIT: Image courtesy of Parvin Forghani, PhD, Emory University larger image Heart disease may be the ...

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

Accurately measuring electrical signals and calcium levels in the heart can lead to earlier treatment of potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attack or congestive heart failure. Calcium plays ...

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