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A team of scientists has found that in mice, a cellular housekeeping pathway protects against a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.

A novel atlas reveals region-specific links between structural, mechanical, and genetic properties within the heart.

Hector Cabrera Fuentes, a renowned cardiovascular researcher, collaborated with Russian intelligence agents for more than a year, prosecutors said.

Experts have a decent grasp on how COVID-19 impacts cardiovascular health in the near term. The implications of long COVID, however, remain mysterious.

Specialized immune cells generated in vivo reduce cardiac scar tissue in mice, a new study shows.

Vesicles containing fragments of the organelles released from stressed adipocytes protect the heart against oxygen deprivation, a study in mice shows.

Research in mice and humans points to oxidative stress and inflammation as likely drivers of noise-induced health effects such as hypertension and heart disease.

Sound from cars, aircraft, trains, and other man-made machines is more than just annoying. It increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Mice that experienced heart attacks underwent a large-scale shift in their immune systems that allowed cancer to flourish, perhaps explaining the observation in patients.

A growth factor treatment helps improve cardiac functioning after heart attack in pigs.

To advance the possibility of off-the-shelf cardiac cell therapies, scientists devise an engineered cardiac stem cell that avoids stimulating a detrimental immune attack.

A study in mice reveals that stem cell transplants, currently in clinical trials, may not actually require the cells.

The pharmaceutical firm is buying The Medicines Company, which recently devoted its efforts into developing the cholesterol-lowering medication.

Mutating a gene called CMAH in mice so it’s nonfunctional, as in humans, upped the animals’ chances of developing heart disease, a study finds.

Maps of diving cells before and after heart attacks in mice offer additional evidence against the existence of cardiac stem cells.

Among 11 infants treated to date, most survived and their heart function improved.

The organ’s blood-pumping capacity improved with the infusion of cells, a study shows.

Cardiologists have found a way to cool the human heart in a localized way to help reduce muscle damage from heart attacks.