Doctors said the models had sometimes led to a change of plan in the operating theatre. Southampton Consultant Congenital Cardiac Surgeon Nicola Viola said the technology lifted the "burden of ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have developed a new 3D bioprinting method that can produce any part of the heart, from tiny capillaries through to full-scale heart ...

The first biohybrid model of human ventricles has been used to answer a centuries-old question. Unlike other organs, the heart cannot repair itself after injury, so being able to engineer an entire ...

A few hours at a tech launch can change how you look at the future. I realized that recently, standing amid rows of humming ...

Our hearts are primarily controlled by the brain and autonomic nervous system, but we also have a backup. The heart has its own mini-brain called the intracardiac nervous system (ICN), which fine ...

The normal functioning of the human heart is maintained by the the brain via an intricate network of nerves. When this communication is disrupted, it can result in heart disease, including heart ...