Challenging conventional medical wisdom, Israeli scientists found that scar tissue formation in the heart occurs through two distinct mechanisms. This discovery could lead to new and more targeted ...

From his lab at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Institute, Mingfu Wu, associate professor, is ...

Heart failure is a major health concern, especially for aging populations—it significantly increases mortality rates, and ...

New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist Ahmed Mahmoud, PhD, planned to complete his doctoral degree and enter the pharmaceutical ...

Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made ... This short film will be relevant for teaching biology at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 in Scotland.

This damages heart tissue, triggering symptoms ... of directors of the International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine. “Iron didn’t attract much attention,” says ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California (CA, USA) have created a model that could one day be used to test personalized heart drugs for those who have experienced a heart attack. Senior ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

Our ultimate goal is to make fundamental discoveries that could be later used to design strategies to regenerate the human heart after myocardial infarction. Dr. Gonzalez-Rosa received his PhD in ...

Baptist Health Paducah will host a free heart health screening and educational event on March 22 at Paducah Symphony Hall.