A new study conducted by US researchers has proved that cells taken from human bone marrow, blood and umbilical cords can grow into functioning blood vessels in mice provided the coaxing is right.
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A person's heart rate can reveal a lot about how they make decisions when feeling stressed, a Queensland University of Technology academic says.
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Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston are continuing to document the heart's earliest origins. Now, they have pinpointed a new, previously unrecognized group of stem cells that give rise to cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells.
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Atherosclerosis is what our parents and grandparents used to call hardening of the arteries. The bad news about atherosclerosis: It leads to tens of thousands of deaths every year in the U.S. The good news: You can prevent it.
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For the first time researchers are beginning to understand exactly how various forms of exercise impact the heart. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators, in collaboration with the Harvard University Health Services, have found that 90 days of vigorous athletic training produces significant changes in cardiac structure and function and that the type of change varies with the type of exercise performed.
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The American Heart Association is trying to healthy hearts –especially for women – by introducing Go Red for Heart program.
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Scientists from the University of Minnesota have successfully created a beating heart in a lab. The team was led by Dr. Doris Taylor, director of the University's Center for Cardiovascular Repair, used a process called "decellularization" in which the hearts were taken from newborn rats and stripped of their cells.
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University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
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“Tattooing” the heart with tiny implantable oxygen sensors is just one of dozens of concepts being presented by scientists during an international conference hosted by The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health during last Fall.
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Thirteen/WNET New York presents The Mysterious Human Heart, a new PBS series from filmmaker David Grubin that explores the body's perpetual motion machine and how we cope with coronary diseases, to premier October 15, 2007
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