Zhou’s study, "TBX20 improves contractility and mitochondrial function during direct human cardiac reprogramming," was recently published in Circulation. The most common cause of death worldwide is ...

A UCSF study for the treatment of heart failure after heart attack found that the extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for improving cardiac ...

More than 300,000 people suffer a heart attack in Germany every year. The heart muscle is then no longer supplied with sufficient blood and oxygen, and part of the tissue dies and scars. Unlike the ...

Scientists have created a three-dimensional "heart-on-a-chip" (HOC) that could provide a breakthrough in the fight against the world's leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease. One major ...

The film explores the muscular system of the human body, detailing the roles and functions of the three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles, which are voluntary and work ...

Growing evidence shows that building muscle strength can have benefits for your heart, even leading to better outcomes after a heart attack. Having a higher level of leg muscle strength appears to be ...

James Marchant is a postdoctoral researcher in Alexandre Colas’s group at Sanford Burnham Prebys. In this Postdoc Portrait, he shares his work on developing a gene therapy for heart failure, why his ...

International study shows mavacamten monotherapy improves heart function in patients with HCM, a common inherited heart disease ...