Engineers design a robotic replica of the heart's right chamber
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart's right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts.
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MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart's right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts.
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Hispanic/Latina women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP)—conditions marked by high blood pressure during pregnancy—are more likely to have abnormalities in their heart structure and function decades ...
Dec 4, 2023
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Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists—so far. A new multi-chamber organoid that mirrors the heart's ...
Nov 28, 2023
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Artificial intelligence (AI) from patient electrocardiograms (ECGs) may be an innovative solution to enhance heart disease risk assessment. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease—arteries narrowed or blocked by the accumulation ...
Oct 25, 2023
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A joint effort by a team of academic and industrial researchers led by Associate Professor Yoshinori Yoshida (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) created a new modeling system, combining mechanical stretching and ...
Oct 18, 2023
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A novel cellular pathway regulates DNA damage and structural changes in cardiomyocytes, which contributes to the development of cardiac hypertrophy, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Circulation.
Oct 12, 2023
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Sleep is a vital aspect of human life, with deep sleep being particularly crucial for overall health. The brain recovers during this sleep stage, and the rest of the body seems to regenerate then as well.
Oct 5, 2023
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Many hospitals maintain their own large cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) databases which, when combined with electronic health records, could provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of treatments and inform future ...
Sep 20, 2023
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The iHEART simulator is a mathematical and computational model of the human heart entirely developed at Politecnico di Milano and designed for studying coronary artery disease. This is the focus of research published in Scientific ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Severe heart attacks often progress to end-stage heart failure because the dearth of heart muscle cells diminishes pumping power of the heart's left ventricle. The damaged heart, unable to repair itself, deteriorates and ...
Sep 11, 2023
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