Heart muscle cells do not normally replicate in adult tissue, but multiply with abandoned during development. ... and not on DNA structure, to control replication of heart muscle cells," he says.

One promising strategy to remuscularize the injured heart is the direct cardiac reprogramming of heart fibroblast cells into cardiomyocytes. Researchers have identified TBX20 as the key missing ...

With support from the National Institutes of Health, a University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering professor is ...

Typically, cells that don't continue to divide, like heart cells, are less susceptible to mutations. But the researchers found that cardiomyocytes accumulated mutations as fast or faster than some ...

In their experiment, Xu's team assembled bundles of heart muscle cells into microscopic three-dimensional spheroids that mimicked the structure and function of the human heart.

Just a handful of cells in the embryo are all that's needed to form the outer layer of pumping heart muscle in an adult zebrafish. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used zebrafish ...

Zebrafish heart 60 days after injury showing the structure of the heart muscle cells have completely regenerated. [Phong Nguyen, copyright Hubrecht Institute.] Researchers from the group of Jeroen ...

In their experiment, Xu's team assembled bundles of heart muscle cells into microscopic three-dimensional spheroids that mimicked the structure and function of the human heart.