Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult macrophages.

Researchers found that newborn immune cells regenerate heart tissue by producing thromboxane. Mimicking this process in ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising Many people who have heart attacks eventually experience the organ becoming ...

Bruce Rapport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (I.R.H., N.K., C.B., O.C.). The Clinical Research Institute at Rambam ...

But new research, published in the European Heart Journal, highlights a hidden risk that could be quietly undermining our cardiovascular health: fat stored inside our muscles. Unlike subcutaneous ...

Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, United States Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, ...

A recent study found that the fat stored in muscles can damage blood vessels. This can increase the risk of hospitalisation or death due to heart disease, regardless of body mass index (BMI).

Share on Pinterest Muscle fat may increase heart disease risk more than subcutaneous fat, a new study warns. Image credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Images. Heart disease is the number one killer in the ...

Fat deposits in muscles can increase the risk of a heart emergency For every 1% increase in muscle fat, there’s a 7% increased risk of death, heart attack or heart failure ...