The first thing you notice about Glenna Gordon’s book Diagram of the Heart is that it’s small. Small enough to fit in a coat pocket. It has a soft cover too. It is a design that purposefully mimics ...

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialized tissue of the cardiac ...

A team led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London reports that certain risk factors for heart disease are linked to common changes in the structure and appearance of the heart. Risk factors ...

As the central part of the circulatory system, the heart is responsible for pumping blood, supplying oxygen and nutrients, and removing metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide from all the tissues in ...

It's this student's anatomy of a heart that's making the rounds on social media. Remember the times we took our class tests and ended up looking at the ceiling when we didn't know an answer? Surely, ...

A general view of London, England through smog on April 2, 2014. Participants had larger right and left ventricles in the heart when they lived closer to busy roads. A general view of London, England ...

Benefits above and beyond the cholesterol lowering effect of statins have been reported by investigators. Statins are associated with improved heart structure and function, according to research ...

Peter J. Knight is at the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. The ...