A new, easily adopted, 3D-printed device will enable scientists to create models of human tissue with even greater control ...

During the early stages of life, organs do not just appear in their final form. They take shape through a process of ...

Space might hold the key to solving one of the most persistent human health challenges - ailments like knee problems that ...

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 ...

Researchers have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, ...

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a technique that could help advance ...

Scientists have for the first time captured the moment a heart begins to form from embryonic stem cells. In astonishing ...

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to ...

Dr. Mohammadi, an Associate Professor with the School of Engineering ... of both technologies—mechanical and tissue—when it comes to replacement heart valves. "Tissue valves generally perform ...

a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Kim led the project to send heart tissue to the space station. To create the cardiac payload, ...