Well, they should soon be able to do so – and the model will actually pump liquid, just like the patient's real heart pumps blood. Building upon previous research, an MIT/Harvard University team ...

"We now have a model to track and trace what is happening at the cell and molecular level in pump structure that begins to approximate the human heart," Ogle said. "We can introduce disease and ...

The research could help better understand how the heart works and what can cause a deadly arrhythmia - which fundamentally happens when the heart doesn't pump blood correctly any longer.

In one form of the condition, the pumping function of the heart is ... of RBM20 improves diastolic function in a murine heart failure model und human engineered heart tissue, Science Translational ...

A mouse model ... Biology, and in the Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. Read the paper: Nitrosative stress drives ...

Without the thumping sound of the older Heart Mate, the newer, quieter model is less prone to complications ... Doctors said the new pump has been shown to last more than three years in the ...

Roche et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017) About 5.7 million Americans suffer from heart failure, meaning their hearts don’t pump blood as well as they should. The affliction costs the ...

The proteins may also play a part in heart failure and abnormal heartbeat patterns known as arrhythmias. "In addition to providing a new understanding of what makes our hearts pump, these findings ...

The activity of SERCA2a, a crucial membrane protein located inside cardiac muscle cells (myocytes), is compromised in heart failure. SERCA2a acts as a calcium-ion pump, being responsible for the ...

By Christina Jewett A troubled heart pump that has now been linked to 49 ... the recent spate of problematic reports. When the one model of the device was approved by the F.D.A. after additional ...