An immune cell type called macrophages, found throughout the body's tissues, are often referred to as the body's clean-up ...

Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, affecting millions of people and placing ...

A new experimental therapy helps restore the heart’s flexibility in models of stiffened heart failure. Michael Gotthardt and his colleagues at the Max Delbrück Center are working with U.S. researchers ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

Heart failure (HF) has long been blamed on weakened heart muscle cells, but new research shows that support cells called fibroblasts may be a key factor. Researchers found that fibroblasts send ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited form of heart disease, associated with over 1,000 mutations, many in β-cardiac myosin (MYH7). Molecular studies of myosin with different ...