Tiny human heart organoids open the door to safer, faster drug discovery

Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it ...

Automated 3D heart tissue platform speeds up cardiac drug testing

Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden-based biotech company Ncardia have joined forces to ...

Heart computational model can help doctors operate on and treat patients with arrhythmia

Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common kinds of arrhythmia, causing the heart not to contract properly in order to ...
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New heart organoid model could revolutionize drug development and toxicology studies

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 organoid ...
BioTechniques

Heart organoid model illuminates key aspect of congenital heart defect pathology

An organoid model of the human heart provides insights into the pathology of diabetes-induced heart defects in newborns. Researchers from Michigan State University (MI, USA) have used human heart ...
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Miniature heart model holds the key to saving lives and enhancing patient outcomes

Discovery led by Prof. Yaakov Nahmias from the Hebrew University marks a new era in cardiovascular research, a multi-chambered, self-paced miniature heart model, holding the key to saving lives and ...
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World-First Spatial Computing Heart Model Spotlights Female Heart Attack Symptoms

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