Cardiac disease While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered great apes continues. Sadly, cardiac disease is the leading ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

"Our work was the first to show that we can regenerate the porcine heart after injury, and now we've advanced the field by demonstrating that even middle-aged adult human heart cells—long believed ...

Could the humble zebrafish hold the key to the holy grail of heart attack care – regrowing damaged heart muscles?

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 ...