This Valentine’s Day, as we exchange stylised hearts in celebration of love, we might pause to remember that the power of the ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good ...

The Mighty Pump That Keeps You Alive The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body. It is responsible for ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

A review of human heart models—cardiac organoids and organ chips—showed that each method has unique advantages in different research contexts, including cardiac disease modeling and drug development.

Results from rhesus macaques provide solid ground for a first-in-human investigation of heart ... led to an improvement in heart function through re-muscularization (building of new heart muscle).

In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses 'sweet taste' receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can ...

The favorable results were observed in primate models and one human patient. The patches were found to effectively treat heart failure and enhance heart functions (e.g., heart wall thickness and ...

Although these tasks may seem minor, they significantly influence most bodily functions ... muscle contraction and keeps the heart "in rhythm." MiR-888, the human equivalent of miR-871, similarly ...