Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed an artificial model of the mitral heart valve ...

Many promising therapies fail because preclinical models do not fully capture the complexity of the human heart. A new review ...

Researchers have identified a key protein that may help failing hearts regain function, offering new insight into why some hearts recover while others do not. The discovery comes from studying ...

The heart has long been thought to be controlled solely by the autonomic nervous system, which transmits signals from the brain. The heart's neural network, which is embedded in the superficial layers ...

New research from Karolinska Institutet and Columbia University shows that the heart has a mini-brain – its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat. A better understanding of this system, which ...

In a groundbreaking development, Irish-based researchers have developed a model of a vital heart valve that mimics the ...

AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists have provided new insight into the Frank-Starling mechanism; a fundamental aspect of human heart function. The Frank-Starling mechanism described more than a ...

The human heart must constantly adapt to changing demands—a task that requires tightly coordinated molecular shuffling in ...

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 ...

A study led by Maria Carmo-Fonseca at GIMM has helped clarify one of the main limitations of lab-grown heart cells, which are widely used around the world to study heart disease and test new drugs.