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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This new study is the first to identify specific "sweet taste" receptors, known as TAS1R2 and TAS1R3, on the surface of heart muscle cells. The work will be presented at the 69th Biophysical ...