Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A ...

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 ...

Transferring mitochondria from a patient's healthy skeletal muscle to damaged, ischemic heart tissue has been shown to restore heart muscle, increase energy production, and improve ventricular ...

An experimental drug has been shown to improve symptoms, exercise capacity and heart failure status in patients with an ...

Working with heart muscle cells from diabetic rats, scientists at Johns Hopkins have located what they say is the epicenter of mischief wreaked by too much blood sugar and used a sugar-gobbling enzyme ...

Lee Seong-bae, director of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Center at Incheon Sejong Hospital, said, "Patients with severe ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

Even sleeping in relatively low light may damage the muscle walls of the heart, potentially leading to cardiovascular disease ...