This important work provides mechanistic insights into the development of cardiac arrhythmia and establishes a new experimental use case for optogenetics in studying cardiac electrophysiology. The ...

The fluid and the cells inside lymphatic vessels are collectively known as lymph, and although the lymphatic system extends to every part of the body, there is no central pump like the heart to keep ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart’s own contractions trigger biological signals that guide the formation of a functional beating heart. Their study in zebrafish ...

Studying why heart cells are less likely to become cancerous can provide clues to improving heart regeneration and treatments for heart disease.

These cells are uniquely able to differentiate into human cardiac muscle cells and have the potential to be safer than existing strategies to derive new cardiac heart muscle cells.

Manufacturing difficulties are holding back the commercial development of heart disease cell therapies, according to researchers who say “cell free” treatment could be an easy-to-make ...

Living with cardiovascular disease often takes a serious emotional toll—and with stress known to worsen heart health, there's ...

The cells that make up the skin, nails and hair regularly replenish across your lifespan. Bone cells divide at a rate that will give you an entirely new skeleton approximately every 10 years.

The heartbeat is synonymous with life. It's one of the first essential functions to begin during development and to end at ...