Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have developed a 3D printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and beats, giving surgeons and medical students a reusable, ...

3D heart on a chip technology: A tiny, lab-grown piece of beating heart tissue may soon help scientists answer a question that has long been difficult: how will a real human heart respond to a drug or ...

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 and ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...