Remaining young at heart is a desirable but elusive goal. Unbeknown to us, however, myocyte regeneration may accomplish just that. Continuous cell renewal in the adult myocardium was thought to be ...

Ten years ago, the first finding of apoptotic cell death on the ‘crime scene’ of cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury profoundly dismayed the scientific community. This observation jarred with the ...

The scarring of the heart that results from myocardial infarction has been interpreted as evidence that the heart is composed of myocytes that are unable to divide. However, recent observations have ...