Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

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A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat heart ...

MSU researchers have created the first human heart-like “organoids” that enable the study of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib. The models also enable new ways of evaluating heart development, diseases ...

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 ...

Discovery led by Prof. Yaakov Nahmias from the Hebrew University marks a new era in cardiovascular research, a multi-chambered, self-paced miniature heart model, holding the key to saving lives and ...

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 ...