The human heart, a fist-sized muscle, tirelessly beats billions of times throughout life, powering every cell by delivering ...

Invasive epicardial coronary physiologic assessment is increasingly performed to evaluate the hemodynamic significance of ...

D printed blood vessels on glass that mimic blood vessel anatomy and the fluid dynamics of blood flow could be an invaluable ...

The tides of war often turn on the unexpected, such as attacking the enemy on an unanticipated front. General George Washington attempted to do just that when he assailed Philadelphia by way of ...

This study provides valuable insights into human valve development by integrating snRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics to characterize cell populations and regulatory programs in the embryonic and ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

Biomedical engineer Nenad Bursac, standing, and postdoctoral associate Tianyu Wu image a heart tissue patch through a microscope at the Bursac lab at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have successfully conducted experiments to treat damage caused by heart attacks in non-human primates using gene therapy for the first time. More than 800,000 ...

Next week, La Jolla Playhouse will unveil its latest world premiere musical, "The Heart." Here's how a play about a human heart came to life. Human organs aren’t usually the leading characters in a ...

Olivia de Guzman and Tara Park stars of Amphibian Stage s production of Lloyd Suh s popular 2023 play The Heart Sellers. Evan Michael Woods Lloyd Suh’s timely The Heart Sellers has become one of the ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...