The thought of spaceflight may make the heart skip a beat, but actually travelling beyond Earth could alter the organ’s cells. With extended stays aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ...

Travelling into space is would put a strain on anyone’s heart, but it seems that moving into the unknown actually changes the organ’s cells. In fact, the heart is able to adapt to the new environment, ...

Human heart muscle cells show changes in the way they operate in space, although they behave normally within 10 days after returning to the Earth, according to a study. The research, published in the ...

The thought of spaceflight may make the heart skip a beat, but actually travelling beyond Earth could alter the organ's cells. With extended stays aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ...

Growing human cardiac tissue that behaves like native heart muscle would be transformative for biomedical research, enabling researchers to study human physiology and model heart diseases under fully ...