This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

For decades, cardiology textbooks treated heart damage as permanent, a grim one-way street from heart attack to heart failure ...

Repairon’s groundbreaking regenerative heart failure therapy is being evaluated in a Phase 2 clinical study in Germany. As reported recently, an interim analysis presented at the 2025 Scientific ...

Heart attacks remain a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The permanent loss of heart muscle cells—known as cardiomyocytes—and the heart's limited regenerative capacity often lead to ...

A new microneedle patch developed by Texas A&M University may revolutionize the treatment of damaged heart muscle after a heart attack. The device delivers a targeted dose of interleukin-4, or IL-4, ...

Artistic representation of heart regeneration: Hmga1 in green symbolically flows from the border zone of a zebrafish heart (top right) to the injured border zone of a mouse heart (left). Red ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

University of California San Diego-led team has discovered that restoring a key cardiac protein called connexin‑43 in a mouse ...

It’s active during embryonic development but switches off soon after birth, so reactivating this dormant gene could help repair damage after a heart attack. The team says that the next step of the ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, yet the few available treatments are still mostly unsuccessful once the heart tissue has suffered damage. Mammalian hearts are actually able ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. <br>Cambridge-based Fibrex Medical Inc. has released ...