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

Catherine O'Hara's heart and organs were a mirror image of most people's. Though that is rare, congenital heart defects are fairly common.

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 ...

An advanced human heart organoid system can be used to model embryonic heart development under pregestational diabetes-like conditions, researchers report. The organoids recapitulate hallmarks of ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Researchers track heart disease from young adulthood to uncover when sex-based risk differences first emerge. Study: Sex Differences in Age of Onset of Premature Cardiovascular ...

Using a combination for spatial, single-cell transcriptomics and imaging data from 36 hearts, scientists from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and their collaborators have come up with what they ...

A pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Nebraska, Dr. Amy Beethe, formed a lasting connection with True, a 4-year-old boy she met in the hospital. True was facing surgery for hypoplastic right ...

Tenaya Therapeutics (TNYA) is a very interesting biotech because it is in the process of developing two one-time gene therapies to treat patients with common genetic heart disorders. I believe that ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, yet progress in understanding and treating cardiac disorders is limited by the shortcomings of existing experimental models. Traditional ...

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 ...