Our research suggests that the human heart has adapted to support our upright stance, movement and larger brain. Over the last 10 years, we have been conducting assessments of the cardiovascular ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

"Understanding this system better could lead to new insights into heart diseases and help develop new treatments for diseases such as arrhythmias." The study was conducted on zebrafish, an animal ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

The framework of CASHeart. (A) Overview of the data collection and data processing workflow in the CASHeart Database. (B) Introduction to the main interfaces of the CASHeart website. The human heart ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a large team of researchers from the United States (U.S.) used single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing combined with high-resolution ...

The thought of spaceflight may make the heart skip a beat, but actually travelling beyond Earth could alter the organ’s cells. With extended stays aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ...