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 ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, yet progress in understanding and treating cardiac disorders is ...

An advanced human heart organoid system can be used to model embryonic heart development under pregestational diabetes-like conditions, researchers report. The organoids recapitulate hallmarks of ...

A new groundbreaking study sheds light on a medical question scientists have long wondered: why do 40 per cent of children with the rare neurodevelopmental disorder KBG syndrome have heart defects?

Mechanical cues are key regulators of cardiac development, yet their role in organoid maturation remains underexplored. In a ...

Organoids can replicate each component of the human heart, from its chambers to its veins. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How ...

Using a combination for spatial, single-cell transcriptomics and imaging data from 36 hearts, scientists from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and their collaborators have come up with what they ...

The experimental drug IC7Fc reduces artery-clogging fats and inflammation in mice, pointing to a potential new strategy for ...

A University of Houston pharmacology researcher and expert in cardiac development has identified a new cause of—and repair ...

Since its emergence in 2020, Covid has jumbled the list of the 10 leading causes of deaths in the United States. It roared into third place in 2020 but has now fallen to 10th place, the National ...