When a car accident or athletic injury destroys more than 20% of a muscle's mass, the body faces a problem it often can't ...

When a car accident or athletic injury destroys more than 20% of a muscle's mass, the body faces a problem it often can't ...

Researchers have shown that cardiac scar tissue (fibroblasts) can be directly reprogrammed to heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) in mice. By treating mice post-heart attack with a virus carrying ...

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

Some phrases are commonly used and are only sometimes valid when said. For those of us in the Pacific Northwest, an example could be using the term “It’s freezing out.” This phrase is often used when ...

Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes today are announcing a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting ...

A kick in the leg from soccer can lead to a quadriceps muscle contusion. This can lead to bleeding into the muscle, a hematoma, which can result in a ball of scar tissue. RICK LOOMIS NYT Q. My 14-year ...

It is estimated that during a heart attack, one billion cells in the heart are lost. In the wake of the heart attack, the lost tissue is replaced by scar tissue, which can lead to heart failure, ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Five patients who lost large amounts of muscle in their legs were able to grow it back. With the ...