Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart preserved inside a fossilised prehistoric fish. They say the specimen captures a key moment in the evolution of the blood-pumping organ found in all back-boned animals, including humans. The heart belonged to a fish known as the Gogo, which is now extinct.

Health features don’t necessarily keep people healthier.

Microbiome-related metabolites, blood sugar, and inflammation appear more important than blood cholesterol in mediating heart disease due to meat intake.

The future of cardiac medicine involves tissue engineering. It includes the creation of a human heart for transplant. Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created the first biohybrid model of beating cardiac cells aligned helically. This model demonstrated that muscle alignment does, in fact, significantly increase the amount of blood the ventricle can pump with each contraction.

A team of researchers from US biotech company Verve Therapeutics have injected a gene-editing serum into a live patient's liver with the goal of lowering their cholesterol, a watershed moment in the history of gene editing that could potentially save millions from cardiovascular disease and heart attacks, MIT Technology Review reports.

Along with high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, environmental factors such as air pollution are highly predictive of people’s chances of dying, especially from heart attack and stroke, a new study shows.

Dr. Doris Taylor, who directed regenerative medicine research at Texas Heart Institute in Houston until 2020, shows off groundbreaking technology in which she took a ghost-like shell of a pig's heart, and infused it with beating human stem cells. Her talk took place on stage at the 2022 Life Itself conference, a health and wellness event presented in partnership with CNN.

The study found that participants who had stopped smoking retained a significantly increased risk of heart failure for decades after they’d stopped smoking.

Injectable, biodegradable technology developed by UK team works as a scaffold to help new tissue grow!

Watching too much TV is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease regardless of an individual’s genetic makeup, say a team of scientists at the

The 57-year-old patient who survived two months after undergoing a landmark pig heart transplant died of a pig virus, his transplant surgeon announced last month. In January, David Bennett, a handyman who suffered from heart failure, underwent a highly experimental surgery at the University of Maryland medical center in which doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into him.

In a study of 20 participants, those that slept with a light had worse blood sugar control the next morning compared to those who snoozed in total darkness

Asthma or allergies may be linked to future high blood pressure and heart disease, according to a new study.

Scientists have developed a blood test that can predict whether someone is at high risk of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or dying from one of these conditions within the next four years. The test, which relies of measurements of proteins in the blood, has roughly twice the accuracy of existing risk scores. It could enable doctors to determine whether patients’ existing medications are working or whether they need additional drugs to reduce their risk.

Using advanced 3D printing techniques, Mark Skylar-Scott and his team of Stanford bioengineers want to transform a paste made of living cells into hearts and other organs.

A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

The man died two months after operation, says the hospital that carried out the world-first surgery.

We aimed to investigate the association of serum pentadecanoic acid (15:0), a biomarker of dairy fat intake, with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in a Swedish cohort study. We also systematically reviewed studies of the association ...

A potentially game-changing "bionic" pacemaker capable of restoring the human heart's naturally irregular beat is set to undergo trials involving heart patients in New Zealand this year. We may be on the medical precipice of turning back time, or actually reversing the heart rhythm effects of cardiac events.

Device offers insights into artificial muscular pumps, a step toward building an artificial heart