The heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to do its job. The vessels that feed the heart are called coronary arteries (shown in the diagram right) and they branch off from the body’s main artery, the ...

Most people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the ...

The finding, published in Circulation Research, fills in an important gap in our understanding of how coronary arteries develop and could help improve treatments that aim to heal damage to heart ...