As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from ...

Researchers discover a previously unknown heart disease risk factor that can affect people of all sizes, challenging what we ...

I suggested that we try applying his model to the injured heart ... cardiac fibrosis. When the scientists blocked TIMP-1 in ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in five deaths. The inability of damaged heart muscle tissue to regenerate makes heart disease difficult to ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by crosslinking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications.

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by cross-linking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications. In ...

A self-powered, bioresorbable temporary pacemaker the size of a grain of rice has been developed by an international team of ...

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 ...

A unique subset of cardiac fibroblasts expressing CD248 orchestrates immune–fibroblast crosstalk, promoting chronic cardiac fibrosis and dysfunction after ischemia–reperfusion injury, with ...

When pediatric cardiac ... partial heart transplant, that allows the transplantation of living valves and heart muscle into infants with severe congenital heart conditions. The living tissue ...

In research published in Advanced Science, investigators developed an injectable hydrogel containing components of fish swim bladders and used it to repair damaged heart tissue.