Megan Schmidt didn’t plan to join the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart Lab, but once she began work there as part of her Ph.D. program, she was sold. “I would basically do any sort of research ...

For Werner, the lab validated his pursuit of medicine, squashing any doubts he may have had. “If there’s one thing this course has proven to me over the hours, weeks of time in the anatomy lab, even ...

University of Toronto scientists have developed a chemical formulation, C16, that matures lab-grown heart cells to resemble adult tissue more closely. The method, guided by computational screening of ...

The team produced heart tissue that beats more forcefully and exhibits greater structural organization than previous models, ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...