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Image of the Day: Repairing Hearts
Image of the Day: Repairing Hearts
A growth factor treatment helps improve cardiac functioning after heart attack in pigs.
Image of the Day: Repairing Hearts
Image of the Day: Repairing Hearts

A growth factor treatment helps improve cardiac functioning after heart attack in pigs.

A growth factor treatment helps improve cardiac functioning after heart attack in pigs.

cardiology, cell & molecular biology

Adult Cardiac Stem Cells Don’t Exist: Study
Diana Kwon | Sep 5, 2018 | 3 min read
A mouse study adds to the growing body of work disputing the ability of progenitor cells to regenerate muscle tissue in adult mammals’ hearts.
Generating Cardiac Precursor Cells
Kerry Grens | Jun 1, 2016 | 2 min read
Researchers derive cardiac precursors to form cardiac muscle, endothelial, and smooth muscle cells in mice.
In Failing Hearts, Cardiomyocytes Alter Metabolism
Amanda B. Keener | Jun 1, 2016 | 2 min read
While the heart cells normally burn fatty acids, when things go wrong ketones become the preferred fuel source.
The Fatty Acid–Ketone Switch
Amanda B. Keener | May 31, 2016 | 1 min read
In failing hearts, cardiomyocytes change their fuel preference.
Smooth Move
Ashley P. Taylor | Jan 1, 2016 | 2 min read
In the mouse lung, hardening of a blood vessel can result from just a single progenitor cell forming new smooth muscle.
Repairing hearts
Megan Scudellari (Video by Richard P. Grant) | Jun 9, 2011 | 1 min read
Paul Riley of University College London discusses his new research, published June 8th in Nature.
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