The inventor sketched intricate muscular structures half a millennium ago. Turns out he was on to something.

Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the first people to draw detailed sketches of human anatomy. His drawings showed that he noticed networks of muscle fibers on the inside of the heart. Da Vinci thought ...

19 August 2020, Cambridge - Researchers have investigated the function of a complex mesh of muscle fibres that line the inner surface of the heart. The study, published in the journal Nature, sheds ...

The heartbeat is synonymous with life. It’s one of the of the first essential functions to begin during development and to end at death. “The heart is one of the first organs to form and function ...

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Centuries after Leonardo watched a heart beat, a fresh answer is taking shape. A new wave of imaging, genetics, and computation shows that the fine mesh of muscle lining the heart—called ...