Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

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 ...

Like all mechanical hearts, BiVACOR currently acts as bridge for patients waiting for a human heart transplant, but its ...

A review of human heart models—cardiac organoids and organ chips—showed that each method has unique advantages in different ...

This allows us to create more advanced bioprinted heart tissue, with the ability to mature in a laboratory setting, better replicating adult human heart structure. We are excited to build on this ...