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

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.

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 ...

Cardiac output can be calculated using the following equation: Stroke volume close stroke volumeThe volume of blood pumped from the heart with each beat. is the volume of blood pumped out of each ...