An engineer has created a 3D model of the human heart, inspired by his daughter’s heart condition, with the goal of creating a library of virtual hearts for researchers to use whenever they want.

The goal of the partnership is to develop the first human mini-heart models of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) using stem cells from real patients and improve the understanding of this disease ...

Heart disease — the leading cause of death in the U.S. — is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself after injury. That is why tissue engineering, ultimately ...