Cells in the developing heart must find the perfect match, much like a game of microscopic speed dating. Using filopodia—tiny ...

they started beating. While this isn't the first time heart tissue has been grown in the lab, it's the closest researchers have come to their end goal: Growing an entire working human heart.

During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump ...

This workout seemed to help the cells mature. Visually, they began to take on the structures of human heart tissue, and the cardiomyocytes beat harder. A genetic analysis showed that these cells ...

When a heart is taken out of a person, provided it is kept under the very conditions that it needs to be transplanted, it will continue to beat. Why is that? Scientists think new research has ...

This Valentine’s Day, as we exchange stylised hearts in celebration of love, we might pause to remember that the power of the heart has been a symbol of life, death and everything in between for ...

Katlyn's heart is now beating correctly ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance any lesson on the heart ...

This disembodied heart, beating on its own in a cinderblock-walled ... and stents has funded half of this lab reanimating human and pig hearts. The windowless space contains more than $20 million ...

First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Ayame, who often ...