At the University of Minnesota, researchers keep hearts alive outside the body for hours. Medtronic uses them to develop ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

It started as a respiratory illness—or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...