Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for roughly one in three fatalities nationwide. However, a significant portion of those people aren’t identified as high risk until after a cardiovascular event occurs. And part of the problem is that traditional risk calculators depend on cumulative factors such as elevated … Read more

The human heart has been treated as a relatively simple organ for most of modern history. Cardiomyocytes were the star of the show, and everything else was the supporting cast. Resulting was a field defined by therapies largely designed around a single cell type, making diseases like heart failure, fibrosis, and arrhythmia difficult to treat … Read more