As our virtual heart tour continues, we gather around a bisected heart, watching valves open and close. The teacher prompts us to trace the blood flow — “oxygenated or deoxygenated?” he asks.

A scientific team has just developed an innovative polymer, PHOx, which could significantly improve the safety of implantable medical devices, while being more environmentally friendly. This invention ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Charlotte's first four-year medical school welcomed its inaugural class of 49 students — some of the best among 12,801 ...

University of Liège scientists develop PHOx - for 3D printed thermoplastic elastomer implants without isocyanate PU (NIPU).

The curious minds at ColdFusion introduce the scientists who 3D printed a living, beating human heart for the first time.

A study led by scientists at King's has revealed how the physical orientation of the heart inside the chest dramatically ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs ...

The breakthrough involved printing human islets – the insulin-producing clusters of cells in the pancreas – using a customised bioink made from alginate and decellularised human ...

3D-printed tumor models mimic human tissue to improve surgical imaging research by Ashlyn Grotegut, Texas Tech University edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

Heart stem cells articles from across Nature Portfolio Heart stem or progenitor cells are multipotent cells residing in the adult mammalian heart that are capable of self-renewing and generating ...