In a remarkable breakthrough, a collaborative team of researchers, led by Professor Yaakov Nahmias from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Tissue Dynamics ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

Drosophila -- known as fruit flies -- are a valuable model for human heart pathophysiology, including cardiac aging and cardiomyopathy. However, a choke point in evaluating fruit fly hearts is the ...

The goal of the partnership is to develop the first human mini-heart models of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) using stem cells from real patients and improve the understanding of this disease ...

In a developing human heart, these long lived immune cells guide growth, clear debris and help shape healthy tissue. Until now, most lab models left them out. “Our new model allows us to study living ...

• Heart failure is a global pandemic affecting at least 64 million people worldwide and costing over US$100B per year • Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for half of all ...