For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling of heart muscle cells. To succeed, ...

Many promising therapies fail because preclinical models do not fully capture the complexity of the human heart. A new review ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has ...

A Johns Hopkins-led study reports that severe obesity in people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is linked to weakened contraction of heart muscle cells, but this defect may ...

Researchers have developed a scalable bioreactor-based system to produce cardiac organoids that successfully integrated into ...