For pre-surgical planning or medical education, a personalized version of the Living Heart can be registered in 3D space to a model of the patient in question. A long-term collaboration known as ...

And also, the average heart weighs between half of a pound to 1 pound, depending on where you’re at. And also, your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every single day,” Adam Jacobson said.

Medical device design: The model can help design more effective devices by predicting changes in heart function. Personalized therapy: By offering patient-specific simulations, the model could be ...

Discovery led by Prof. Yaakov Nahmias from the Hebrew University marks a new era in cardiovascular research, multi-chambered, self-paced miniature heart model, holding the key to saving lives and ...

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 gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves ...