Michael Gotthardt at the Max Delbrück Center and collaborators are developing a drug to treat a common type of heart failure ...

Get to know the functions of your heart, blood vessels, and blood itself and how they work together to maintain your health.

Reports on stem cell therapies for post-heart attack tissue repair have described at best modest success. Most clinical trials have used bone marrow-derived cells, which are thought to promote the ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

Scientists restored the function of heart muscles in aging fruit flies, according to a newly published study. The genetic complex identified in the research could lead to new treatments for heart ...

Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...

New research shows how gender-affirming hormones influence Cardiac Troponin I levels after one year of treatment. Read more.

AMES, Iowa - Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on aging heart muscles in fruit flies, a development that could lead to new therapies for older humans with heart disease. Hua ...