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

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

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

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by cross-linking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications. In ...

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

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 ...

The mini pacemaker device does not have a separate battery. Instead its body functions as a simple type of battery called a galvanic cell—the two electrodes, made of different combinations of ...

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

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 ...

Find out what happens to heart cells in space and how their adaptation could revolutionize heart disease treatment.