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

Baylor College of Medicine will be a site for a new multi-institution project aimed at investigating preclinical drug safety ...

The Bar Harbor lab is the first research institution in Maine to be awarded a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.

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 ...

Developing new drugs is one of the riskiest and most expensive endeavors in science. Today, The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) ...

For pre-surgical planning or medical education, a personalized version of the Living Heart can be registered in 3D space to a model of the patient in question. A long-term collaboration known as the ...

Uncover the innovations in creating living heart tissue that promise to transform organ regeneration and medical therapies.

The first ever "humanized" model for aortic valve calcification paves the way for testing potential treatments. Researchers at the University of Missouri are working to develop a new platform for ...

For decades, animal models have been the gold standard for preclinical testing of potential drugs. Yet, even the best animal models are not perfect. For example, small rodent species with engrafted ...