This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

For decades, the human heart was seen as a one-chance organ-once damaged, forever scarred. But a groundbreaking discovery from Australia is now challenging that belief, revealing that the human heart ...

In a world-first discovery, scientists in Australia have found that the human heart can regrow muscle cells after a heart attack, raising hopes for future regenerative treatments for heart failure.

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 ...

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 ...

The study, published in Circulation Research, revealed that while parts of the heart remain scarred after a heart attack, new ...

Scientists in Australia made an exciting new finding in a recent study.

Readers warn that the current rate of regeneration is not sufficient to prevent serious damage caused by heart attacks. Still ...

An Australian study has found that human heart muscle cells can regenerate after a heart attack, challenging long-held ...