This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

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

Adding neuromuscular electrical stimulation to physiotherapy boosts functional performance in hospitalized patients with ...

A research team at the University of California San Diego has discovered a novel and promising method of treating arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), a rare inherited heart disease that can strike ...

Japanese researchers have transplanted human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in a primate model of myocardial infarction and were able to restore heart muscle and function in monkeys. Developed ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

Science reveals that your lower legs act as a secondary circulatory pump, pushing blood against gravity to protect your heart ...