A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative gene-therapy strategy ...

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A self-powered, bioresorbable temporary pacemaker the size of a grain of rice has been developed by an international team of ...

Muscle contraction occurs when these myofilaments ... The myocardium is composed of a specialized type of muscle cell called cardiac muscle that is only found in the heart. Cardiac muscle is ...

A team at CNIC has developed an innovative gene therapy to treat arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 5 ...

New study suggests boosting potassium intake may lower blood pressure more effectively than cutting sodium alone.

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The kidneys limit urinary extraction of this mineral, so deficiency in magnesium is rare, says the US’s National Institutes ...

One of the most important human health impacts of Fowler’s work has been the demonstration that Tmods control precise actin filament lengths in the contractile structures of skeletal and cardiac ...

Contractile proteins are proteins that mediate sliding of contractile fibres (contraction) of a cell’s cytoskeleton, and of cardiac and skeletal muscle. Heart and muscle contractile fibres ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by crosslinking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications.