heart attack

New progress presented at an annual conference of the American Heart Association signals renewed hope to repair the heart after injury.

Immune cells carried an antioxidant to a mouse’s cardiac muscle cells, which had been damaged by a heart attack.

After a heart attack, the damage is permanent — for now. Researchers are testing innovative ways to get the heart to regenerate muscle cells and fix itself.

Researchers harvest stem cells from patients who have recently had a heart attack and use them to trigger regeneration of their cardiac muscle.

Scientists developed a way to probe single cell transcriptomic data to find drugs that target cells of interest and to identify cells targeted by specific drugs.

Direct cardiac reprogramming relies on the principles of transdifferentiation to convert specialized cells into new cell types that help repair the heart.

CRISPR gene editing directly and indirectly drives advances in cardiovascular disease therapeutic development.