A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This groundbreaking ...

Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) are bivalve molluscs a bit like clams that have a symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic algae that live inside them. The algae have a safe home, get light to ...

For the current study, the researchers used UT’s e-tattoo design to develop a device that could operate inside the ... who used light to monitor and control heart rhythm (optocardiography ...

The difference in the two layers’ porosity creates a junction that separates charge carriers, much like the p-n junction that forms the heart of silicon solar cells. When light shines on the ...

Stanford University and Duke University has found that heart cockles have windows in their shells to allow in light needed by the algae that live inside the shells. Heart cockles are bivalve ...

A beating pig heart on Jan. 21, 2025, at the University of Minnesota's Visible Heart Lab in Minneapolis. At the U's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a ...