Most people think of heart problems as blocked arteries or heart attacks, but the heart's valves are just as important in keeping blood pumping efficiently. Heart valve disease occurs when these ...

"Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, yet adult human heart muscle cells stop dividing after birth," Dr. Chaudhry said. "Our work was the first to show that we can regenerate the ...

New research raises questions about everyday ingredients in processed foods—and what they could mean for long-term heart ...

The human heart is one of the hardest-working organs in the body. It never takes a day off and requires a continuous supply ...

Researchers mapped 442,239 single nuclei from nonfailing human hearts to chart how cardiac cells change from fetal ...

IgG autoantibodies from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systolic dysfunction directly affect engineered human heart tissue, altering cellular composition, respiration and calcium ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Type 2 diabetes doesn’t just raise the risk of heart disease—it physically reshapes the heart itself. Researchers studying donated human hearts found that diabetes disrupts how heart cells produce ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...