The heartbeat is synonymous with life. It’s one of the of the first essential functions to begin during development and to end at death. “The heart is one of the first organs to form and function ...

A 16 th Century mystery about the trabeculae of the heart has been solved with the power of data, AI and imaging genetics. 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci sketched heart trabeculae – the intricate ...

Centuries after Leonardo watched a heart beat, a fresh answer is taking shape. A new wave of imaging, genetics, and computation shows that the fine mesh of muscle lining the heart—called ...

19 August 2020, Cambridge - Researchers have investigated the function of a complex mesh of muscle fibres that line the inner surface of the heart. The study, published in the journal Nature, sheds ...

In humans, the heart is the first functional organ to develop, starting to beat by four weeks after conception. During the development, the heart grows an intricate and complex network of muscle ...