For Werner, the lab validated his pursuit of medicine, squashing any doubts he may have had. “If there’s one thing this course has proven to me over the hours, weeks of time in the anatomy lab, even ...

Megan Schmidt didn’t plan to join the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart Lab, but once she began work there as part of her Ph.D. program, she was sold. “I would basically do any sort of research ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of ...

Biomedical engineers have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle. Johns Hopkins biomedical ...

A lab in Vienna has used stem cells to create thousands of tiny heart-like structures. Each miniature heart, dubbed a “cardioid,” is the size of a sesame-seed and has a hollow chamber that beats.

We’re familiar with lab-grown diamonds, but what about ‘lab-grown hearts’? It might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, yet soon, lab-grown hearts could be saving transplant patients.

Stem cells have been used to grow an embryonic-like “heart” that can pump fluid around a system of tiny channels on a laboratory slide. The mini-heart could allow researchers to explore how physical ...

The University of Akron's BETA Lab received a grant from the American Heart Association to help develop new, less invasive ...