Researchers boosted levels of a heart-healing hormone in mice and pigs with a single injection of a new, experimental form of ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have identified a specific biological mechanism by which GLP-1 drugs, the same class ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart “tissue-on-a-chip” specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes ...

Coin-sized disks cut from the cocoon of the tasar silkworm grub provide a basic scaffold for heart muscle cells.Image: MPI for Heart and Lung Research Because damaged human-heart muscle cannot be ...

Human heart cells and tissues grown in the laboratory from stem cells promise to accelerate the development of drugs and treatments for heart disease, but they currently take weeks or months to grow.

Microengineered human heart tissue is headed to space in an effort to further research on aging and the effects of long space flight. The collaboration between Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University ...

Rising Incidence of Heart Attacks In recent years, there has been a notable increase in heart attack cases, particularly ...

More than 800,000 Americans will have a heart attack this year. Fortunately, most will survive the traumatic event — but many will emerge with hearts damaged beyond repair. “Many tissues in your body, ...