ATLANTA — What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed. Scientists discovered that after just eight days aboard the International Space Station, human heart cells ...

Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beating heart ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that guide the formation of a functional beating heart. Their study in zebrafish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan State University scientists have built tiny beating heart organoids that can be driven into atrial fibrillation with ...

In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing with the wrong cell could mean the difference between a beating heart and one ...