Renowned visionary English physician William Harvey wrote in 1651 about how our blood contains all the secrets of life. “And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering have developed a new method to mature ...

Scientists have found that the human heart can regenerate muscle cells after a heart ...

Cancer cells travel through the blood like restless seeds, searching for places to take root. Yet one organ they almost never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people around the world die from heart failure every year. In future, a laboratory-grown heart patch could help with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You probably know someone who is affected by cancer. This disease results when cells divide uncontrollably and can make a person ...

Reintroduction of the Cyclin A2 gene enables adult human cardiomyocytes to divide, producing functional daughter cells and promoting heart repair. The therapy uses a replication-deficient adenoviral ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that guide the formation of a functional beating heart. Their study in zebrafish ...

The groundbreaking study has raised hopes for regenerative therapies that may one day help repair damaged hearts and even ...

Researchers from Emory University studying how heart muscle cells grow and function in a space environment found that spaceflight increases the expression of genes involved in stress response and cell ...