Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have ...

A team of scientists have developed a beating “mini-heart” formed in only a small petri dish – paving the way for future treatments. Using 35,000 pluripotent stem cells, which are spun into a sphere ...

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image: A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has induced stem cells to emulate the development of the human heart. The result is a sort of “mini-heart” known as an organoid. It will ...