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 organoid ...

Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) have used human pluripotent stem cells to grow sesame seed-sized heart organoids, called cardioids, ...

The Science Siblings are celebrating Heart Month with some facts and a DIY model. “For example, the size of your heart is about the same size as your fist. And also, the average heart weighs between ...

Efforts to understand cardiac disease progression and develop therapeutic tissues that can repair the human heart are just a few areas of focus for the Feinberg research group at Carnegie Mellon ...

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Cardiovascular-related disorders are a significant global health problem. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in developed countries, accounting for a third of the mortality ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. It looks ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Just over a year ago the PREVENT calculator to ...

If you were planning to perform open-heart surgery on someone, it would definitely help if you could first do a "dry run" on an exact replica of their heart. Doing so may soon be possible, thanks to a ...

A person wears virtual reality goggles to view and manipulate images in the Living Heart Project. (Photo: Courtesy of Dassault Systèmes and the Living Heart Project) Clinical trials can be very ...

Cardiac arrhythmia is a malfunction of the heart’s electrical system, which can make the vital organ beat too fast, too slow, or irregularly. There’s no single cause of arrhythmia, and after decades ...