A new study published in Nature Materials suggests that heart ageing may be reversible by targeting the hearts extracellular ...

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a cardiologist explains why neglecting your "second heart" can lead to health ...

Scientists may have found a way to rewind the heart’s biological clock without even touching the cells. A team of researchers ...

Scientists have found a novel way that includes a new lab-grown material that could help slow and even reverse some of the ...

Interestingly, most people drive their vehicles to work daily, oblivious to what the ECM does, let alone what the acronym even stands for. The ECM is an acronym for Electronic Control Module.

When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been believed to lack the ability to heal itself. But recent research suggests ...

The engineered heart patches, each one containing about 200 million cells embedded in a collagen hydrogel, built new muscle cells and improved the heart’s pumping function, the study found.

A muscle patch crafted from stem cells has improved cardiac function in monkeys with heart disease. It is now being tested in a small number of people, with early results from the first recipient ...

Share on Pinterest Muscle fat may increase heart disease risk more than subcutaneous fat, a new study warns. Image credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Images. Heart disease is the number one killer in the ...

BACKGROUND: The ECM (extracellular matrix) provides the microenvironmental niche sensed by resident vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Aging and disease are associated with dramatic changes in ECM ...

Artificial Heart Regeneration: The investigators found that patients with artificial hearts regenerated muscle cells at more than six times the rate of healthy hearts.