The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of the body. So the heart pumps blood through the aortic valve to all the cells in the body.

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

The work is published in the journal Bioactive Materials. About 30,000 Americans die each year when the aortic valve fails in their heart. But the current state-of-the-art approaches of using ...