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 ...

Drosophila -- known as fruit flies -- are a valuable model for human heart pathophysiology, including cardiac aging and cardiomyopathy. However, a choke point in evaluating fruit fly hearts is the ...

The goal of the partnership is to develop the first human mini-heart models of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) using stem cells from real patients and improve the understanding of this disease ...

In a developing human heart, these long lived immune cells guide growth, clear debris and help shape healthy tissue. Until now, most lab models left them out. “Our new model allows us to study living ...

Use of high-speed video microscopy and artificial intelligence provides calculated statistics like diastolic and systolic diameters, fractional shortening, and ejection fraction BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ...