While taste receptors are traditionally associated with the tongue and our ability to perceive flavors, recent studies have shown that these receptors exist in other parts of the body, where they ...

Preclinical studies show that engineered heart muscle (EHM) can remuscularize damaged ... they generated cardiomyocytes and stromal cells with high purity and used these to construct EHMs ...

Learn the essential facts about systolic heart failure affecting 6.5 million Americans. Recognize warning signs and ...

Heart attacks and cardiac arrest differ in causes, symptoms, and treatments. Learn how recognizing these emergencies improves ...

UC San Diego engineers demonstrate high-speed, all-optical method for recording voltage changes in biological cells ...

A discovery in cardiac regeneration offers ew hope for the treatment of ischemic heart failure. Published in npj Regenerative ...

Most people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) develop heart problems by adulthood, making management of cardiac health ...

Since heart muscle cells don't regenerate ... Currently there is no effective treatment for cardiac scarring. Therefore, preventing or reducing fibrosis is a pressing medical need.

For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, engineers ...

An existing cardiac drug has now been found to reduce the risk of metastasis by dissolving circulating clusters of breast cancer cells in patients. Radiation and chemotherapy are effective at ...