Diseased hearts may be thrown out of rhythm by structural differences -- now visible for the first time -- in protein groups that connect heart muscle cells, according to the authors of a new study.

Proteins responsible for the pumping force of the heart beat and muscle cell contraction appear to cluster together in intercalated discs in an extremely organized fashion. Scientists from the NYU ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In this Perspectives article, we summarize the potentially overlapping genetic and molecular features of ACM and BrS, and how they ...