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

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

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.

It is well known that cells detect and respond to mechanical stresses by ... but will soon be expanding into cardiac muscle tissue engineering.

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 ...

Muscle is a soft tissue composed of elongated cells (muscle fibres) that produce force and motion through contraction. Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the ...

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, that ...

Cardiac enzymes ― also known ... The MB type is specific to myocardial cells, whereas MM and BB are specific to skeletal muscle and brain tissue, respectively. The CK level increases ...

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 ...