An international team of scientists working with veterinary and care staff at zoos and wildlife sanctuaries has carried out a detailed study of heart structure and function in great apes and compared the results with human hearts. They found the structure and function of the left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the human heart […]
Heart shape carefully arranged, as described in Nature, vol 427, p309, 22 January 2004. During embryonic development mammal and human hearts, with their four chambers and complex arrangement of vessels and valves, develop from a simple tube. In order to understand how this process happened, Sigolene Meilhac and colleagues labelled cells in the heart tube […]