A groundbreaking study shatters the myth of permanent cardiac damage, revealing that the heart can naturally trigger cell ...

The human heart, a powerful, fist-sized organ, is the hardest working muscle in the body. It works 24/7, pumping blood through vessels (its partner in the makeup of the circulatory system), so oxygen ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

Heart slice culture is a technique that allows researchers to study the structural and functional properties of heart tissue in a controlled laboratory setting. This technique involves slicing thin ...

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, that ...

Management and decision making in univentricular heart disease and Fontan circulation, represents one of the most complex challenges in congenital ...