A team of MIT engineers has designed a flexible drug-delivery patch that could help the heart heal after a heart attack. The innovation, which has shown success in rats, delivers multiple drugs on a ...

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help promote healing and regeneration of cardiac tissue. The new patch is designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of mans torso in glowy blue outlines with heart highlighted in red Despite its importance, the heart is one of the ...

The body's tissues can get injured in many ways, but while some injuries heal perfectly, others don't heal at all. A cut in the skin, for example, usually heals all on its own, while internal organs, ...

The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question -- why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, cannot -- may lie with the ...

Internal organ tissues often don’t heal after illness or injury and lose some function, such as the heart after a heart attack. UCLA cardiologists have identified a protein that interferes with ...