Mending a broken heart
Laurie Boyer’s work might one day lead to cures for heart defects and disease.
New approach to global health challenges
MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science brings many tools to the quest for new disease treatments and diagnostic devices.
A computer scientist's approach to medicine
Stephanie Seneff is using the novel natural language processing techniques she developed to better understand how drugs and environmental toxins impact human health.
Seeing the human pulse
An algorithm that can accurately gauge heart rate by measuring tiny head movements in video data could ultimately help diagnose cardiac disease.
Evaluating a new way to open clogged arteries
Computational model offers insight into mechanisms of drug-coated balloons.
Cardiac development needs more than protein-coding genes
Biologists find that long non-coding RNA molecules are necessary to regulate differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac cells.
Probing matters of the heart
New study of stem cell differentiation could help researchers better understand the genetic basis of heart disease.