Researchers have developed a scalable bioreactor-based system to produce cardiac organoids that successfully integrated into ...

Researchers have investigated the effect of increased cell temperature on the contractility of skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle by heating the muscle proteins using advanced microscopical techniques ...

In a heartbeat, cardiac muscle cells contract to push blood out to the body, then relax to allow the heart to fill again. This is possible because muscle proteins are organized into sarcomeres, which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Muscle patches generated from stem cells helped ease heart problems in monkeys and a human patient, in a ...