A major heart attack can change the rest of your life. Even when doctors clear a clogged artery in time, your heart may still ...

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

Human heart cells have been coaxed into regenerating for the first time in a breakthrough that could mend failing organs.

The curious minds at ColdFusion show scientists 3D printing a human heart for the first time. This matters because it represents a groundbreaking step toward regenerative medicine and organ ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not afflicted by heart attacks - a condition that emerged primarily with modern ...

Nicholas St. Fleur covered the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences. He hosted STAT’s health equity podcast, Color Code. For much of Barbara Natterson-Horowitz’s career, her work has ...

The heart has come to be synonymous with love. In our minds, we commonly associate the organ with emotionally significant days like anniversaries, weddings, etc. However, the anatomical heart does not ...

People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...