Ultrasound—the technology used for sonograms and examining the heart—can increase the rate at which heart cells beat, researchers from Drexel University report. In their paper "Ultrasound-Induced ...

Shanghai researchers engineer biological pacemaker that could offer a new way to control abnormal heart rhythms Scientists in Shanghai have used stem cells to create the world's first laboratory-grown ...

Scientists have discovered that the heart's beating strength and constant movement may naturally block the growth of cancer.

Cancer cells travel through the blood like restless seeds, searching for places to take root. Yet one organ they almost never ...

ATLANTA — What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed. Scientists discovered that after just eight days aboard the International Space Station, human heart cells ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that guide the formation of a functional beating heart. Their study in zebrafish ...

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