Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the composition of immune landscape is altered in the aortic wall of diverse types of AD, and opens new avenues for a rational and precise anti-AD ...

The first transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart into a human may have ended prematurely because of a well-known—and avoidable—risk. The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier ...

Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they've found them -- food, water, air and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren't directly exposed to the ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts of St. Andrews, Scotland, perched inside a ...

Surgeon Bartley Griffith examines the pig heart before the transplant. University of Maryland School of Medicine Bartley Griffith is a cardiac surgeon at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who ...