For patients with inherited heart conditions—especially children—treatment options are often limited, and studying the disease in the lab has long been a challenge. That’s because traditional stem-cell-derived heart cells tend to remain immature, behaving more like fetal tissue than adult […]
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed PanEcho, an AI-powered tool that interprets echocardiograms with remarkable speed and accuracy. Traditionally, analyzing these heart ultrasounds requires expert review of over 100 images and videos per patient. PanEcho automates this process,
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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a groundbreaking algorithm that significantly accelerates the design of vascular systems for 3D-printed hearts. The ability to fabricate personalized organs using a patient’s own cells has long been a goal in regenerative medicine, but
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A new AI-powered foot scanner is helping prevent hospitalizations for heart failure patients by detecting early signs of fluid buildup in the feet and ankles. Developed by Heartfelt Technologies, the device uses foot-recognition technology to analyze 1,800 images per minute,
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Stanford Medicine researchers have achieved a breakthrough in organoid development by successfully growing heart and liver organoids with integrated blood vessels. This advancement addresses a major limitation in organoid research—previously, these miniature biological models couldn’t grow beyond a sesame seed
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