Microtubules, part of heart muscle cells' internal "skeleton," help determine how the heart changes shape under stress, and a ...

Tissue Dynamics Ltd. and Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NASDAQ: GLMD) ("Galmed" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on liver, cardiometabolic, and GI oncology diseases, ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and is caused in part by age-related cardiac structural dysfunction. A team of bioengineers in Professor Adam Engler's lab at the ...

A DZHK research team at the University Medical Center Mainz has discovered a new signaling pathway of the coagulation system that controls scar formation after a heart attack. If this signaling ...

Incorporating high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) testing into the traditional HEART pathway may improve detection of acute MI in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest ...

Mitochondrial dysfunction and redox imbalance are central drivers of cardiovascular disease, contributing to impaired bioenergetics, oxidative stress, ...

ROCKVILLE, MD – In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet ...

A newly discovered pathway between the heart and brain may explain why healthy people faint. The pathway appears to carry signals from the heart's lower pumping chambers to an area of the brainstem ...

A new study published in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology reveals that chronic kidney disease (CKD) accelerates cognitive decline through interconnected damage to ...