Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

Everyone knows the heart symbol, but almost nobody knows where it actually comes from — and it isn’t the human heart. The shape traces back to an extinct plant used in the ancient world as medicine, ...

Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart ...

Human heart cells have been coaxed into regenerating for the first time in a breakthrough that could mend failing organs.

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