When a muscle contracts, the parts of a sarcomere "shorten" and come closer together. Each cardiac muscle cell can have over 5,000 sarcomeres, which compounds both the shortening and relaxation events ...

No one can live without a heart pumping blood to the rest of the body. New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine reveals more information about this vital function and how it’s ...

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a nanosensor-based hardware and software complex for measurement of cardiac micropotential energies without filtering and averaging-out ...

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have ...

A joint study by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University Hospital Würzburg provides new insights ...