Cardiac disease While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analyzing the hearts of endangered great apes continues. Sadly, cardiac disease is the leading ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

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 multi-chamber ...

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The ...

Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable adaptability to different environments has long fascinated scientists, with each ...

Senior Lecturer and Clinical Academic in Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, Swansea University Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our ...