Megan Schmidt didn’t plan to join the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart Lab, but once she began work there as part of her Ph.D. program, she was sold. “I would basically do any sort of research ...

For Werner, the lab validated his pursuit of medicine, squashing any doubts he may have had. “If there’s one thing this course has proven to me over the hours, weeks of time in the anatomy lab, even ...

Biomedical engineers have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle. Johns Hopkins biomedical ...

For years, researchers have suspected that a hormone called relaxin could be an effective treatment for certain ...

A lab in Vienna has used stem cells to create thousands of tiny heart-like structures. Each miniature heart, dubbed a “cardioid,” is the size of a sesame-seed and has a hollow chamber that beats.

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The ...

We’re familiar with lab-grown diamonds, but what about ‘lab-grown hearts’? It might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, yet soon, lab-grown hearts could be saving transplant patients.