Researchers discover a previously unknown heart disease risk factor that can affect people of all sizes, challenging what we ...

HCM and DCM are among the most common inherited heart diseases. Both can cause serious problems like heart failure and sudden ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by crosslinking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications.

Both diseases can be caused by changes (mutations) in the same gene that makes a protein called tropomyosin, which helps ...

Titanium plates for broken bones, chips and wires for damaged spines, and now origami inside the heart. Contemporary medicine continues to evolve, and a biomedical innovation – inspired by the folded ...

Research in the Leinwand lab focuses on unraveling mechanisms of genetic heart and skeletal muscle diseases ... a number of nonmuscle tissues which is very unusual, and people in the lab are trying to ...

Artificial intelligence was used to measure the dimensions and function of the left ventricle, and to evaluate heart function among 36,000 healthy individuals, based on cardiac magnetic resonance ...

Within multicellular organisms, tissues are organized communities of cells that work together to carry out a specific function. The exact role of a tissue in an organism depends on what types of ...