RIKEN researchers have imitated the formation of organs in the lab by "hacking" certain signaling pathways that guide the development of connective tissues in the embryo, which support the formation ...

The St Vincent's Hospital Heart Lung Transplant Unit has carried out the world's first distant procurement of hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD). These hearts were subsequently resuscitated ...

Modelling definitive haematopoiesis in organoids has been challenging. A study now develops blood-generating heart-forming organoids that display heart muscle, vascular endothelium formation and ...

Ambient particulate matter pollution is one of the leading causes of global disease burden. Epidemiological studies have revealed the connections between particulate exposure and cardiovascular and ...

There are many different circulatory system diseases, all of which interrupt the complex process of distributing blood around the body. Examples include atherosclerosis, heart attack, and arrhythmia.