New research from Karolinska Institutet and Columbia University shows that the heart has a mini-brain - its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat. A better understanding of this system, which ...

Maintaining a stable heartbeat is critical for survival. Your heart must constantly adapt its output to meet changing demands for oxygen and nutrients. Traditionally, scientists have attributed this ...

"Understanding this system better could lead to new insights into heart diseases and help develop new treatments for diseases such as arrhythmias." The study was conducted on zebrafish, an animal ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It ...

Senior Lecturer and Clinical Academic in Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, Swansea University Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our ...

Human heart cells have been coaxed into regenerating for the first ... keeping their structure and function and demonstrating normal protein and calcium activity. Further analysis showed that CCNA2 ...

Organoids can replicate each component of the human heart, from its chambers to its veins. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How ...

Study: An engineered human cardiac tissue model reveals contributions of systemic lupus erythematosus autoantibodies to myocardial injury. Image Credit: Shit4Sell / Shutterstock.com In a recent study ...