Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

In a game-changer for drug testing & precision medicine, a 3D flexible electrode array wraps around cardiac organoids, ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Paul Iaizzo's Visible Heart Lab at the University of Minnesota hums with activity. Heart monitors, computer readouts, and a bank of 3D printers. Iaizzo's staff aren't racing to print ...

MSU researchers have created the first human heart-like “organoids” that enable the study of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib. The models also enable new ways of evaluating heart development, diseases ...

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 ...

The Bar Harbor lab is the first research institution in Maine to be awarded a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...