The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students ...

Technically, your heart isn’t made of gold. And don't wear it in on your sleeve—you’ll make a mess. Here are 11 scientific ...

Cardiovascular Services The Heart Center at St. Mark’s offers a variety of services for people with heart conditions. The ...

Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...

Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL)—commonly known as bad cholesterol—have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) -- commonly known as bad cholesterol -- have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease. But these microscopic troublemakers have hidden ...

There are notable differences between men and women in their susceptibility to many human diseases, including cardiovascular ...

and heart rate (HR) can be readily noted. Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) has been associated with cardiac rhythm disorders. Recently, cardiac rhythm disorder treatment with pacemaker (PM ...

Objective The study was to test proof-of-principle if genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) transfected with HCN2 genes can be modified to be cardiac pacemaker cells. Methods (1) MSCs ...

In this review, we will discuss 3D pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-models of the human heart, such as engineered heart tissues and organoids, and their applications in disease modeling and drug screening.

Endothelial cells are, by number, one of the most abundant cell types in the heart and active players in cardiac physiology and pathology. Coronary angiogenesis plays a vital role in maintaining ...