Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good ...

For years, heart research has been limited by a lack of cell models and has relied on animal models to substitute for human hearts, said Elizabeth McNally, MD, Ph.D., the Elizabeth J. Ward ...

Over the course of just one month in space, engineered human heart tissue got weaker, its ‘beating’ patterns became irregular and it underwent molecular and genetic changes that mimicked the ...

An estimated 18 million people live on the island, with the majority based in the coastal lowlands and cities. The forests of the Heart of Borneo area are of high value for people’s livelihoods and ...

but it comes with hidden dangers — even for the human heart. A recent study has revealed that just one month in space can weaken engineered human heart tissue, make its ‘beating’ patterns ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

"One of the most surprising findings was how gene regulation in the human heart differs so much from other primates," says Ruiz-Orera. In terms of anatomy, most mammalian hearts are similar.

After a month at the International Space Station, a set of 48 bioengineered human heart tissue samples beat about half as strong as similar tissues that remained on Earth. Advertisement The ...

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A continuously changing number used in combination with a secret key to encrypt data. Initialization vectors (IVs) are used to prevent a sequence of text that is identical to a previous sequence ...