ATLANTA — What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed. Scientists discovered that after just eight days aboard the International Space Station, human heart cells ...
New research suggests that the heart's constant mechanical force may inhibit cancer cell growth, explaining its rarity in ...
Scientists have discovered that the heart's beating strength and constant movement may naturally block the growth of cancer.
Less than 1 percent of cancers start in the heart, and disease that begins elsewhere seldom spreads to the blood-pumping ...
Cancer cells travel through the blood like restless seeds, searching for places to take root. Yet one organ they almost never ...
Ultrasound—the technology used for sonograms and examining the heart—can increase the rate at which heart cells beat, researchers from Drexel University report. In their paper "Ultrasound-Induced ...
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 ...