The heart's primary function is to pump blood to all parts of the body, bringing nutrients and oxygen to tissues and removing waste products from them. Even when our body is at rest, our tissues ...

Detailed map of the heart provides new insights into cardiac health and disease Date: July 12, 2023 Source: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Summary: Researchers have produced the most detailed and ...

Credit: courtesy Drawn & Quarterly The graphic novel Map of my Heart begins with a cartoon map of Hoffman Estates: the high school, the Barrington Square Mall, a good spot to pick raspberries ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists just published the most detailed map of the developing human heart to date. The atlas includes 75 types of heart cells, including cell types in the heart's valves ...

The team's findings, published today in Nature, suggest specific cell types and biological mechanisms that could be targeted by new treatments.Heart failure is one of the most common causes of ...

To generate a spatio-temporal map of myocardial infarction and its aftermath, we analysed human heart muscle from the left ventricle at times ranging from 2 to 166 days after infarction.