Challenging conventional medical wisdom, Israeli scientists found that scar tissue formation in the heart occurs through two distinct mechanisms. This discovery could lead to new and more targeted ...

Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made ... This short film will be relevant for teaching biology at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 in Scotland.

New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist Ahmed Mahmoud, PhD, planned to complete his doctoral degree and enter the pharmaceutical ...

This damages heart tissue, triggering symptoms ... of directors of the International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine. “Iron didn’t attract much attention,” says ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California (CA, USA) have created a model that could one day be used to test personalized heart drugs for those who have experienced a heart attack. Senior ...

A wave of contraction spreads across the heart - to the left atrium and then to the ventricles. This enables the ventricles to contract together. Sometimes, the rhythm of the heart's natural ...