"It is simply amazing to see these developmental processes taking place, and it inspires new thoughts and hypotheses that could lead to significant insights into how the mammalian heart develops," ...

Two seemingly disparate signaling pathways -- one that controls organ size in fruit flies and another important for the growth of embryos -- interact in embryonic mouse hearts to restrict cell ...

These improvements were due to a surprising finding—proliferation of endogenous heart muscle cells in the pig hearts. This is particularly noteworthy because shortly after birth, mammalian heart ...

In mammals the heart is a double pump. The right side pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs and the left side pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body tissues. This means that a red blood ...