The heart’s natural healing ability is limited but groundbreaking research and advanced therapies are offering new hope for ...

In both affected siblings, an accumulation of amorphous material immunoreactive for desmin, dystrophin and vimentin was observed in the cytoplasm of the skeletal muscle cells. An uncle and the ...

It may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure, the deadliest non-communicable disease on ...

Between meals, cardiac muscle cells meet 90% of their ATP demands ... the source of fatty acids for adipose tissue cells is their own stock. Skeletal muscle and adipose tissue cells also utilize ...

It is well known that cells detect and respond to mechanical stresses by metabolic alterations ... In particular, our group is focused primarily on cartilage tissue engineering, but will soon be ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle ... human heart tissue to track whether these samples contained newly generated cells.

But what if we could reprogram the body's own cells to restore damaged tissue? This question has ... patient's own cells to repair their heart." Direct cardiac reprogramming, a process that ...