BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...

When female athletes collapse on the playing field, they are less likely to be resuscitated than men: How gender differences ...

In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting ...

Scientists from QIMR Berghofer's Cardiac Bioengineering Lab have developed lab-grown, three-dimensional heart tissues known ...

University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

The project leverages Novoheart’s proprietary mini-Heart Platform, a suite of 3D bioengineered cardiac tissues and chambers that replicate human heart structure and function more faithfully than ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain's wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published ...

Over time, it twists and folds into its final form. This shaping process is crucial. It not only gives the heart its structure but also tells the cells how to align and function.