Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is ...

Researchers grew a piece of a human heart in a lab. The new model isn’t an entire heart. Instead, it’s a model of the ventricle, one of the heart’s major parts.

The Human Heart: A Perfect Spiral Mystery. At the center of this dizzying array lay the sacred secret that had so profoundly occupied Aristotle and Aquinas, Leonardo and Vesalius—the human heart.

Dec. 2, 2021 — Human heart muscle cells cease to multiply after birth, making any heart injury later in life a permanent one, reducing function and leading to heart failure.

Suffice it to say, the human heart is a precious but ever so fragile part of our being, one that can engender feelings good and bad. When these bad feelings (or, worse yet, ...

The story of the giraffe, its neck, and a possible treatment for human heart disease. Q&A with Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: Answers for vexing human illnesses can be found in animals.

The ability of the human heart to renew itself by regenerating its muscle cells, myocytes, is very limited. But what happens to this capability when the heart is damaged by severe heart failure ...

Our research suggests that the human heart has adapted to support our upright stance, movement and larger brain. Over the last ten years, we have been conducting assessments of the cardiovascular ...