Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A ...

New guidance for diagnosing heart attacks tells doctors to account for a key difference between women and men — levels of a ...

A septal myectomy is an open-heart operation that removes the portion of thickened heart muscle blocking blood flow. During ...

Humans can’t regenerate heart muscle damaged by disease, but scientists have long known that some animals, such as zebrafish, can. Researchers have now identified a set of genes in zebrafish that ...

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Lynn Yap of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered new insights into how unspecialized cells, also ...

The adult heart may be trying to repair itself after a heart attack—it just struggles to finish the job. For decades, the adult heart was treated as an organ with almost no ability to replace the ...

Researchers from Hannover Medical School (MHH) have placed living human heart tissue in a nutrient solution and used it to test new drugs and innovative approaches to combat heart failure. Professor ...

Indiana University researchers have found that administering intravenous dexrazoxane before, during and after reopening a blocked coronary artery in heart attack patients reduced ...

In a new research report, a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins Medicine say people with severe obesity and a common type of heart failure experience weakened heart muscles, and that losing weight ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that human heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack. The finding overturns the idea that damaged areas of the heart are completely incapable of ...

Transferring mitochondria from a patient's healthy skeletal muscle to damaged, ischemic heart tissue has been shown to restore heart muscle, increase energy production, and improve ventricular ...

Urolithin A, a compound the body can make after eating foods such as pomegranates, improved heart relaxation in preclinical ...