When patients arrive for a cardiac MRI at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center, they may not realize that while they lie still in the scanner.

Scientists have created a three-dimensional "heart-on-a-chip" (HOC) that could provide a breakthrough in the fight against the world's leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease. One major ...

More than 300,000 people suffer a heart attack in Germany every year. The heart muscle is then no longer supplied with sufficient blood and oxygen, and part of the tissue dies and scars. Unlike the ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Sustainable engraftment of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) can be achieved by implanting patches of engineered heart muscle onto the surface of the heart under immune suppression. Evidence from ...

3D heart on a chip technology: Scientists have created a groundbreaking 3D heart-on-a-chip. This lab-grown tissue beats and ...

Coin-sized disks cut from the cocoon of the tasar silkworm grub provide a basic scaffold for heart muscle cells.Image: MPI for Heart and Lung Research Because damaged human-heart muscle cannot be ...

When someone suffers a heart attack, their heart is left permanently scarred and thus less capable of pumping blood. According to a new study, however, a protein injection could help undo such damage.

A new biomaterial delivered to the heart soon after a heart attack can heal damaged tissue from the inside out. Heart attacks kill cardiac muscle tissue, scarring the heart and leaving permanent ...