Embryogenesis depends on a finely orchestrated, reproducible program of pattern formation that creates the multi-tissue structures that eventually develop into organs. The human heart is no exception ...

In a small lab on an upper floor of a building at the University at Albany, students are growing fully-formed human hearts. The hearts are miniscule — about half as large as the head of a needle. But ...

Human congenital cardiac defects are very common (occurring in about 7 of 1,000 live births), and recent advances have revealed the molecular basis for some of these defects. Heart Development is ...

New hope offered by a pharmacy team for treating heart disease by sharing insights into the fundamental process of how the heart is formed in utero.

Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good ...

Abnormalities in heart formation, the most common form of human birth defects, afflict nearly 1% of newborns, and their frequency in spontaneously aborted pregnancies is estimated to be tenfold ...

Each of these various parts of the Church’s spiritual treasury play their part in teaching us, molding us, and guiding us in the way of prayer. It is prayer that shapes our hearts. It is prayer that ...