People who live close to airports and are exposed to high aircraft noise levels could be at greater risk of poor heart function, increasing the likelihood of heart attacks, life-threatening heart ...

In the late 1960s, three Weizmann Institute of Science researchers developed several protein-like molecules, called copolymers, that they believed would produce a disease similar to multiple sclerosis ...

The heart requires substantial energy to sustain its contractile function. Cardiomyocytes reach full functional maturity through postnatal development. During this process, key aspects such as fuel ...

A massive international study could upend 40 years of heart attack treatment. Researchers found that beta blockers—routinely prescribed after uncomplicated heart attacks—offered no real benefit for ...

Accurately measuring electrical signals and calcium levels in the heart can lead to earlier treatment of potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attack or congestive heart failure. Calcium plays ...

The human heart can lose up to one-third of its cardiomyocyte (heart muscle cells) following a severe heart attack, but a new study found that the heart can regrow these cells following ischemia.

Jen Davis (left) and Bella Reichardt (right) conducting research in a lab for genetic engineering of heart fibroblasts.at the UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration Medicine. Fibroblasts ...

Lead author Dr. Cristian Topriceanu (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science) said, "Cardiac MRI picks up scarring of the heart tissue, inflammation and signs the heart muscle is not working as well ...

More than any other organ in the body, the heart inspires the imagination. Throughout human history, people around the world have written, spoken and sung about the heart in thousands of languages, ...