Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure.

AICAR (5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide) peptide has garnered attention for its intriguing biological properties ...

When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been ...

and is a cardiac muscle grown in a laboratory from cardiac cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells embedded in a collagen hydrogel. The simulation of this treatment in monkeys was the ...

After earning a dual MD–PhD from the University of Maryland, Porter used his background in muscle cell biology to investigate heart development at Yale. It wasn’t until his move to Rochester, however, ...

The inability of damaged heart muscle tissue to regenerate makes heart ... could significantly advance methods to produce cardiac cells for regenerative therapies, helping to transform the ...

The protein-like polymer, or PLP, platform is made from a polymer that mimics Nrf2. Once injected intravenously, it finds ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by crosslinking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications.

Contractile proteins are proteins that mediate sliding of contractile fibres (contraction) of a cell’s cytoskeleton, and of cardiac and skeletal muscle. Heart and muscle contractile fibres ...