When a car accident or athletic injury destroys more than 20% of a muscle's mass, the body faces a problem it often can't ...

Researchers have shown that cardiac scar tissue (fibroblasts) can be directly reprogrammed to heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) in mice. By treating mice post-heart attack with a virus carrying ...

When a car accident or athletic injury destroys more than 20% of a muscle's mass, the body faces a problem it often can't ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

For decades, cardiology textbooks treated heart damage as permanent, a grim one-way street from heart attack to heart failure ...

Some phrases are commonly used and are only sometimes valid when said. For those of us in the Pacific Northwest, an example could be using the term “It’s freezing out.” This phrase is often used when ...

Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes today are announcing a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Five patients who lost large amounts of muscle in their legs were able to grow it back. With the ...

It is estimated that during a heart attack, one billion cells in the heart are lost. In the wake of the heart attack, the lost tissue is replaced by scar tissue, which can lead to heart failure, ...