The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs ...

UNLV biomedical engineer Huang Chen studies how blood cells interact with medical devices and how to make them more efficient. The research is addressing challenges faced by adults with end-stage ...

Sharma spent years developing methods to turn induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) into either cardiomyocytes or vascular endothelial cells. 2 However, he noticed that the cells never quite matured ...

Now, new research suggests that consistently leaning into unhealthy habits could be especially tough on your heart—and it may even cause this vital organ to age faster than the rest of your body ...

This is the bizarre past, present, and future of the human heart. ... They not only believed that the heart contained a person's soul, but that it had a functional mechanism within the human body.

It is generally difficult to determine the age of cells in the human body and to decide which cells ... A latent cardiomyocyte regeneration potential in human heart disease. Circulation, 2024 DOI ...