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 ...

A lab in Vienna has used stem cells to create thousands of tiny heart-like structures. Each miniature heart, dubbed a “cardioid,” is the size of a sesame-seed and has a hollow chamber that beats.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -A new heart lab is open at The Christ Hospital. What’s inside it is expected to help save lives. The new lab has expanded options for those who may need care for heart rhythm ...

Stem cells have been used to grow an embryonic-like “heart” that can pump fluid around a system of tiny channels on a laboratory slide. The mini-heart could allow researchers to explore how physical ...

We’re familiar with lab-grown diamonds, but what about ‘lab-grown hearts’? It might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, yet soon, lab-grown hearts could be saving transplant patients.

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students whiz around this slimy beating heart and crawl under the tubes ...

A first step into the newly renovated anatomy lab at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine hits you with bracing cold. It's dark. Then lights turn on, revealing a bright, open space that gives off ...