How a research student in 1960 built a virtual heart on a mainframe in the middle of the night. Denis Noble developed the first computer model of the human heart. As a young research student in 1960, ...

Safety is imperative before new medicines are given to patients – which is why drugs are tested on millions of animals worldwide each year to detect possible risks and side effects. But research shows ...

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat heart ...

Scientists in the US have grown the first functioning mini human heart models to help identify cardiac disorders in the lab. The human heart organoids (hHOs), which have functioning chambers and ...

Heart disease — the leading cause of death in the U.S. — is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself after injury. That is why tissue engineering, ultimately ...