For decades, the medical establishment operated under a grim certainty: once a heart attack strikes, the damage is final. In the United States alone, nearly one million people die annually from heart ...

Heart slice culture is a technique that allows researchers to study the structural and functional properties of heart tissue in a controlled laboratory setting. This technique involves slicing thin ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure. A research team ...