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New Study Shows Restoration of Heart Function in Genetic Heart Disease
At a Glance Researchers at the Hubrecht Institute have made significant progress in developing a gene therapy for…
Cancer Is a Problem—But Why Do We Rarely Hear It For the Heart?
It’s no surprise that the word “cancer” strikes fear in most peoples’ minds; after all, the disease classification…
Lab-grown ‘ghost hearts’ work to solve organ transplant shortage by combining a cleaned-out pig heart with a patient’s own stem cells
A ‘ghost heart’ is a pig’s heart prepared so that it can be transplanted into people. Provided by…
New Mini-Heart “Organoids” Help Researchers Study Heart Formation and Repair
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully created a “mini-heart” known as an organoid. The…
MIT Researchers Created a 3D-Printed “Robotic” Heart That Can Mimic Patients’ Real Hearts
Engineers at MIT have developed a 3D-printed robotic heart that could aid doctors in tailoring treatments to individual…
Scientists Used Heart Cells to Make a Biohybrid “Fish”—And It Swims Using “Heartbeats”
First off, no, scientists did not slap fins onto a human heart and made it backstroke across a…