In a heartbeat, cardiac muscle cells contract to push blood out to the body, then relax to allow the heart to fill again. This is possible because muscle proteins are organized into sarcomeres, which ...

New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that a specific protein found in heart muscles regulates muscle contraction and may be related to certain heart diseases and ...

The findings are especially important because less than 1% of adult cardiac muscle cells can regenerate. "Most people die with most of the same cardiomyocytes they had in the first month of life ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto and its partner hospitals have led the development of a heart-on-a-chip device to study the effects of a genetic mutation that causes dilated cardiomyopathy, a ...

Zhen Song, Zhilin Qu, Alain Karma, Stochastic initiation and termination of calcium-mediated triggered activity in cardiac myocytes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ...

The heart is being developed by Cuorips Inc., a startup with Sawa as chief technology officer. The company is already doing clinical trials of human transplants of the cardiac muscle sheets.