"This shows that the heart can indeed repair itself if given the opportunity," said Dr. Douglas Zipes, a past president of the American College of Cardiology.

If the heart can make new cells on its own, there may be ways to accelerate that process and speed up healing. "There's a promise this may be a way to get the heart to repair itself," Bucholtz said.

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Michael Crowe, a 23-year-old from Omaha, Neb., was in desperate need of a heart transplant when the incredible happened: His heart healed itself, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Crowe first began ...

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New insight into the heart's ability to repair itself could help scientists develop ways to improve recovery after a heart attack, a new study of mice suggests. Researchers found that a signaling ...

In a finding that may open new approaches to treating heart disease, Swedish scientists have succeeded in measuring a highly controversial property of the human heart: the rate at which its muscle ...