A University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researcher has been awarded a $2.6 million federal grant to study a potentially deadly form of heart disease that affects people with diabetes, who are ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

A team led by researchers has generated premature cells that support early heart development but vanish soon after birth. A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has ...

A surprising autopsy marked the first time a bony, supportive structure was documented in an adult human heart, medical examiners reported. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...