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 ...

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

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

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 ...

Scientists in Australia made an exciting new finding in a recent study.

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

Sustainable engraftment of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) can be achieved by implanting patches of engineered heart muscle onto the surface of the heart under immune suppression. Evidence from ...

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in ...

As the most important muscle in our body, any serious issues with our heart are considered critical and reason for replacement with a donor heart. Unfortunately donor hearts are rather rare, making ...

Some heart failure patients with artificial hearts have been able to regenerate heart muscle, potentially paving the way for future heart failure treatment options, according to a study published Nov.

An Australian study has found that human heart muscle cells can regenerate after a heart attack, challenging long-held ...