Research by Boston Children's validates an innovative approach to mapping the heart's invisible conduction tissue during ...

Prolonged exposure to microgravity in space weakens the heart muscle and disrupts the heart’s rhythm, Johns Hopkins ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with ...

As the most important muscle in our body, any serious issues with our heart are considered critical and reason for ...

Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a ...

Researchers from Mass General Brigham and collaborating institutions have developed a non-invasive approach to manipulate cardiac tissue activity by using light to stimulate an innovative ink ...

As health officials report a surge of winter viruses, health experts are warning that heart disease symptoms can sometimes ...

Tissue engineering of heart valves is an innovative field aimed at creating functional heart valve replacements that can grow and adapt with patients, particularly children. Traditional heart ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2005;2(2):60-61. Several strategies for heart valve tissue engineering are evolving. They include the use of decellularized allogenic or xenogenic valve matrices ...