For the first time in recorded history, scientists have created a working, vascularized engineered heart using human cells by printing it in 3D. The advancement, which could change medicine ...

The Man Who Demystified the Human Heart Pioneering anatomist William Harvey discovered that the organ once thought to be the seat of the soul was actually a simple pump.

The atlas includes 75 types of heart cells, including cell types in the heart's valves and the muscles that fuel its beats that have never been seen before. It shows how these and other cells ...

Other companies, like Cleveland Heart and French firm Carmat, have also been trying to build a fully artificial heart. Last year, Swiss researchers reported that they had 3-D-printed one , but it ...

Why the human heart can't regenerate itself Date: August 9, 2011 Source: University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences Summary: Stem cell researchers have uncovered for the first time why ...

Medera and its subsidiary Novoheart have collaborated with scientists at the University of California San Diego School of ...

A team of Israeli scientists "printed" a heart with a patient's own cells in a world first, researchers say. Past researchers had been able to print simple tissues without blood vessels, the team ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly and endurance swimmer Benoît Lecomte both experienced heart shrinkage – Kelly after a year in space and Lecomte after a 159-day swim across the Pacific Ocean. It’s ...

Researchers at Harvard and Emory have created a biohybrid fish out of human heart cells that swims autonomously for months at a time as the cells beat. The project is a sidestep on the way to ...

The heart has its own 'brain' Date: December 4, 2024 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: New research shows that the heart has a mini-brain -- its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat.