In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

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

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

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.

Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden-based biotech company Ncardia have joined forces to ...

When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood ...

A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This groundbreaking ...

Scientists in Australia made an exciting new finding in a recent study.

New research finds that type 2 diabetes actually reshapes the human heart, which is why it can cause heart failure. Here's ...

An Australian study has found that human heart muscle cells can regenerate after a heart attack, challenging long-held ...