A groundbreaking study shatters the myth of permanent cardiac damage, revealing that the heart can naturally trigger cell ...

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than ...

In an international study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a gene variant that controls the body's ...

Stem cells that live in the muscle impart its ability to regenerate. After an injury, muscle stem cells activate and must expand in number to repair and make new muscle (marked by dystrophin in white) ...

Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle tissue in zero gravity. This will enable drugs for space missions to be ...

New study reveals how influenza virus infiltrates heart tissue via specialised immune cells, triggering damaging interferon ...

“Our findings suggest that hibernating animals do not simply tolerate muscle damage during winter. Instead, they actively ...

“This is an early but exciting step toward recharging aging tissues using their own biological machinery,” Gaharwar says in the release. “If we can safely boost this natural power-sharing system, it ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...