Heart pumps can dramatically boost muscle cell regeneration in damaged hearts, offering new hope for heart failure recovery.

It is hard to mend a broken heart, but in a few years doctors might be able to do essentially that. Scientists are closing in ...

Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

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In preclinical studies, AZ has seen new blood vessels appearing at the borders of half-dead heart muscle after injecting the mRNA. The trial involved 11 patients with stable coronary artery ...

After a heart attack, the immune system clears out dead heart-muscle cells, leaving gaps that are normally filled with scar tissue. The drug, in a hydrogel form, would be injected into the sac ...

and some heart muscle cells were able to contract. However, the organs were not functioning at the same level as before death. Researcher Dr Zvonimir Vrselja said: "Things are not as dead as we ...

UAB researchers have preliminary data, with cultured cells or diabetic hearts, that diabetes impairs this removal of dead heart-muscle cells. They believe this impairment may be the reason diabetes ...