New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist Ahmed Mahmoud, PhD, planned to complete his doctoral degree and enter the pharmaceutical ...

Challenging conventional medical wisdom, Israeli scientists found that scar tissue formation in the heart occurs through two ...

Since heart muscle cells don't regenerate, the repair consists of cobbling together a scar tissue patch. The problem is that the scar can invade healthy heart tissue in the days or weeks following ...

Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.

After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate healthy heart tissue, leading to scar-tissue buildup and, often, heart failure. A new study in experimental animals reveals a critical ...

Following injury, many organs are capable of rapid regeneration of necrotic tissue to regain normal function. In contrast, ...

Scar tissue forms when a wound heals but is different from skin tissue. For example, it is less elastic, leading to tightness, limited movement, and pain. Exercise, moisturizing, and other home ...

Newborns have a unique ability to heal their hearts thanks to specialized immune cells. These cells produce a key molecule, thromboxane, which promotes heart regeneration—something adult hearts ...

Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered that as men age, they often lose the Y chromosome in some of their ...