Cardiac disease While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered great apes continues. Sadly, cardiac disease is the leading ...

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 ...

"Our work was the first to show that we can regenerate the porcine heart after injury, and now we've advanced the field by demonstrating that even middle-aged adult human heart cells—long believed ...