A medical team at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AUMC) in the Netherlands completed the first-in-human ventricular ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will ... are made by the heart valves as they open and close.

or heart attacks. Existing valve replacement options for patients have major drawbacks. Valves taken from cows, pigs or human tissue and implanted in the patient only last a decade or so and can ...