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

Researchers at RIT are developing non-invasive technology that will better assess cardiac tissue response to thermal energy, a common therapy approach for both cancer and cardiac arrhythmia treatments ...

Jianyi "Jay" Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., brought his biomedical engineering expertise to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to fix hearts. His dream -- and the dream of other heart experts at major ...

A new type of tissue-engineered cardiac patch could not only seal defective areas of the heart, as has been the case up to now, but also heal them. An interdisciplinary team led by ETH Zurich has ...

Structural alignment in fibrous tissues like myocardium and tendons is a key biomarker of physiological integrity and ...

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have unveiled a promising advancement in the realm of medical science: a fast, affordable, and scalable technique for engineering blood vessels using natural ...

Baylor College of Medicine will be a site for a new multi-institution project aimed at investigating preclinical drug safety assessments. The project, known as DATAMAP, the Digital Acceleration of ...

A new type of bioreactor that can grow human veins in the lab has been developed by CSEM and ClexBio, a Nordics-based startup specialized in regenerative medicine. Funded by the Research Council of ...

Paul Stankey (left) is a fourth-year PhD student at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute (both MA, USA), working in Professor Jennifer Lewis’ lab. Jennifer leads a ...

Tissue engineering is a burgeoning academic field, however, the clinical and therapeutic promise of tissue and organ replacement has remained largely unrealized. With the possible exceptions of skin, ...