Hundreds of millions of operations are performed worldwide each year, and the rising
uptake in minimally invasive surgery has enabled fiber optic cameras and robots to become …

Cirrhosis is a chronic condition that can lead to liver failure. Currently, the viable option for
decreasing mortality is liver transplantation. However, transplant surgery is highly invasive …

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapies have been used in clinical trials in various fields.
These cells are easily expanded, show low immunogenicity, can be acquired from medical …

During heart development the second heart field (SHF) provides progenitor cells for most
cardiomyocytes and expresses the homeodomain factor Nkx2-5. We now show that …

Background The role of direct oral anticoagulants as compared with vitamin K antagonists
for atrial fibrillation after successful transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) has not …

Interstitial fibrosis and hypoxia accelerate the progression of CKD, but clinical tools to
quantitate these factors in patients are lacking. Here, we evaluated the use of two magnetic …

RAS GTPases mediate a wide variety of cellular functions, including cell proliferation,
survival, and differentiation. Recent studies have revealed that germline mutations and …

Background: Limited information exists describing the results of transcatheter aortic valve
(TAV) replacement in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease (TAV-in-BAV) …

Background: The semiquantitative Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a simple tool to assess
patients' frailty and has been shown to correlate with mortality in elderly patients even when …

Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets have many semiconducting π-conjugated sp2 domains of
various sizes within an oxygenated sp3 domain. The chemical and physical properties …