Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who arranged for 48 human bioengineered heart tissue samples to spend 30 days at the International Space Station report evidence that the low gravity conditions in ...

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 ...

Paul Stankey (left) is a fourth-year PhD student at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute (both MA, USA), working in Professor Jennifer Lewis’ lab. Jennifer leads a ...

- Muscle cells, also known as myocytes, are specialized cells designed for contraction and force production. Skeletal Muscle Cells: These cells are long, cylindrical, and have a striated (or striped) ...

Structural alignment in fibrous tissues like myocardium and tendons is a key biomarker of physiological integrity and ...

A recent study has demonstrated what a first-of-its-kind integrated map of heart cells can reveal about cardiac fibrosis. Researchers at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Darlinghurst, ...

Capricor Therapeutics’ cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy has come up short at the FDA, with the regulator rejecting the biotech’s application seeking regulatory approval for what the ...