A person wears virtual reality goggles to view and manipulate images in the Living Heart Project. (Photo: Courtesy of Dassault Systèmes and the Living Heart Project) Clinical trials can be very ...

One of the challenges doctors face in diagnosing and treating abnormal heart conditions is understanding the mechanics of an individual's heart. Several companies have attempted to create usable 3D ...

The challenge: developing a realistic, reliable, and reconfigurable testing environment to advance and improve a novel heart assist device without the need for animal testing. A couple years ago, ...

A few years ago, [Addie] over at Tymkrs put together a spooky little Halloween project: a small Propeller board that emulates the electrical signals in a heart. As a cardiac nurse, she thought her ...

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The beating heart lay exposed on the operating table. Suddenly, it flatlined on the monitor. “What did you forget?” asked Dr. Nahush Mokadam, a cardiac surgeon at Ohio State University’s Wexner ...

Supercomputers let us simulate everything from the weather, to a chess match against a master, to how the human body operates. But researchers at Japan’s National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ...