Ongoing research at UT Southwestern Medical Center in the US exploring the ability of human heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack or other cardiovascular event will be accelerated by a new award from the National Institutes of Health.

Seemingly healthy people whose blood contained antibodies associated with a condition called antiphospholipid syndrome were significantly more likely to experience a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke than those without, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists shows.

Researchers in the US have mapped gene control elements in specialised cardiac cells responsible for co-ordinating heartbeats.

Editing a gene that prompts a cascade of damage after a heart attack appeared to reverse this inevitable course in mice, leaving their hearts remarkably unharmed, a new study by US scientists showed.

Using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, researchers have corrected mutations responsible for a common inherited heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in human cells.

Immunologists have uncovered a key pathogenic event prompted by obesity that can trigger severe forms of non alcoholic fatty liver disease and potential liver failure.