Find out what happens to heart cells in space and how their adaptation could revolutionize heart disease treatment.

Heart cells grown in space showed stronger survival, better function, and boosted healing traits. Spaceflight changed key ...

However, early animal trials are proving to be promising ... Some researchers are also working on stem cell therapies that can grow new heart cells, which can then be grafted onto a damaged ...

Specialised animal cells have components that allow ... each perfectly adapted to its function: Cardiac (heart) muscle cells contract and relax to pump blood around our bodies for our entire ...

Researchers found that exposure to microgravity increased cancer cell proliferation and survival. Xu hypothesized that heart cells might exhibit similar behavior, which would address two current ...

pairing with the wrong cell could mean the difference between a beating heart and one that falters. A study demonstrates how heart cells go about this 'matchmaking' process. The researchers model ...

In contrast to stem cell-based approaches, which aim to integrate new cells into the heart, microRNAs (miRNAs) could potentially be a way of “waking up existing cardiomyocytes immediately adjacent to ...

If fat cells become metabolically stressed and dysfunctional, they start churning out chunks of mitochondria that serve as warning signals to the heart of potential catastrophe, suggest the authors of ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in five deaths. The inability of damaged heart muscle tissue to regenerate makes heart disease difficult to ...