For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

Two years later, he's alive and well.

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form ...

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 ...

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

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Type 2 diabetes doesn’t just raise the risk of heart disease—it physically reshapes the heart itself. Researchers studying donated human hearts found that diabetes disrupts how heart cells produce ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind wearable device capable of continuously scanning the lungs and heart of hospital patients while they rest in bed—offering a revolutionary alternative to ...