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High Blood Pressure, a Global Health Threat
Caption: Blood pressure is highest in low-income countriesSource: World Health Organization On Sunday April 7th, we mark the 65th anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO uses...
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Drug Discovery from A to Z … Arrhythmias to Zebrafish!
Caption: Healthy zebrafish (top) compared to zebrafish with arrhythmia-causing mutation (bottom). Their hearts are shown to the right, with enlargement indicating a weaker heart. The heart’s outflow...
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Bioengineering: Big Potential in Tiny 3D Heart Chambers
Caption: Heart microchamber generated from human iPS cells; cardiomyocytes (red), myofibroblasts (green), cell nuclei (blue) Credit: Zhen Ma, University of California, Berkeley The adult human heart is...
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Building a Better Scaffold for 3D Bioprinting
Caption: A bioprinted coronary artery.Credit: Carnegie Mellon University When the heart or another part of the body fails, a transplant is sometimes the only option. Still, the demand for donated...
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Snapshots of Life: Green Eggs and Heart Valves
Credit: Jessica Ryvlin, Stephanie Lindsey, and Jonathan Butcher, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY What might appear in this picture to be an exotic, green glow worm served up on a collard leaf actually...
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A Look Inside a Beating Heart Cell
Caption: Microtubules (blue) in a beating heart muscle cell, or cardiomyocyte. Credit: Lab of Ben Prosser, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania You might expect that...
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Can Barbers Help Black Men Lower Their Blood Pressure?
Caption: Barber Eric Muhammad (left) in his barbershop taking the blood pressure of patron.Credit: Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center You expect to have your blood pressure checked and...
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Wearable mHealth Device Detects Abnormal Heart Rhythms Earlier
Caption: Woman wearing a Zio patchCredit: Adapted from JAMA Network Summary Video As many as 6 million Americans experience a common type of irregular heartbeat, called atrial fibrillation (AFib), that...
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Gene Editing in Dogs Boosts Hope for Kids with Muscular Dystrophy
Caption: A CRISPR/cas9 gene editing-based treatment restored production of dystrophin proteins (green) in the diaphragm muscles of dogs with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.Credit: UT Southwestern CRISPR...
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Modeling Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Dish
Credit: Zhen Ma, University of California, Berkeley Researchers have learned in recent years how to grow miniature human hearts in a dish. These “organoids” beat like the real thing and have allowed...
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Catch Irregular Heartbeats
Credit: gettyimages/enot-poloskun Thanks to advances in wearable health technologies, it’s now possible for people to monitor their heart rhythms at home for days, weeks, or even months via wireless...
View Article3D Printing a Human Heart Valve
It is now possible to pull up the design of a guitar on a computer screen and print out its parts on a 3D printer equipped with special metal or plastic “inks.” The same technological ingenuity is...
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Bringing Needed Structure to COVID-19 Drug Development
Caption: Molecular map showing interaction between the spike protein (gold) of the novel coronavirus and the peptidase domain (blue) of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Credit: Adapted...
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Searching for Ways to Prevent Life-Threatening Blood Clots in COVID-19
Six months into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, researchers still have much to learn about the many ways in which COVID-19 can wreak devastation on the human body. Among the many...
View ArticleSee the Human Cardiovascular System in a Whole New Way
Watch this brief video and you might guess you’re seeing an animated line drawing, gradually revealing a delicate take on a familiar system: the internal structures of the human body. But this movie...
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Study Ties COVID-19-Related Syndrome in Kids to Altered Immune System
Credit: iStock/Sasiistock Most children infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, develop only a mild illness. But, days or weeks later, a small percentage of kids go on to develop a...
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COVID-19 Can Damage Hearts of Some College Athletes
Credit: iStock/Serega There’s been quite a bit of discussion in the news lately about whether to pause or resume college athletics during the pandemic. One of the sticking points has been uncertainty...
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Can Blood Thinners Keep Moderately Ill COVID-19 Patients Out of the ICU?
Credit: iStock One of many troubling complications of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is its ability to trigger the formation of multiple blood clots, most often in...
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Boldly Going Where No Science Has Gone Before
It was an amazing experience to touch base once again with Kate Rubins, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Connecting via live downlink on March 26, 2021, we discussed how...
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How Severe COVID-19 Can Tragically Lead to Lung Failure and Death
More than 3 million people around the world, now tragically including thousands every day in India, have lost their lives to severe COVID-19. Though incredible progress has been made in a little more...
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