Your eyes—retinal blood vessels and retinal imaging—may help predict heart disease, according to a new study. Here, doctors ...

Developed by Shiyou Chen and Dunpeng Cai, faculty in the School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, the "humanized" model is currently being used to test the efficiency of various drugs and medicines ...

There are more candidates on the waitlist for a liver transplant than there are available organs, yet about half the time a ...

A machine learning-based model predicts how long it will take an organ donor to die after removing life support, aiding surgeons in deciding whether organs can be successfully transplanted.

The first ever "humanized" model for aortic valve calcification paves the way for testing potential treatments.

This study provides fundamental information on how Arg-II participates in cardiac aging. The phenotypic data provide convincing evidence of non-cell-autonomous contributions to aging-related ...

Research led by Roger S. Seymour (University of Adelaide) and Edward P. Snelling (University of Pretoria) Those impossibly long legs that make giraffes look like they’re walking on stilts aren’t just ...

Michael Gotthardt at the Max Delbrück Center and collaborators are developing a drug to treat a common type of heart failure characterized by impaired cardiac filling. In a recent study, his group and ...

Sneider immigrated to Los Angeles, California and became involved with social issues facing Latinos in the city. After the city grappled with civil unrest in 1992, Sneider set out to help rebuild Los ...

In another Canadian first, a multidisciplinary team from UHN’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Ajmera Transplant Centre transplanted a heart which had stopped beating before donation. University Health ...

Your heart pumps blood from your head to your toes, provides cells with fresh oxygen, and removes waste products. Located in the middle of your chest and tilted slightly to the left, your heart pushes ...