While heart emojis come in all different shapes ❣️💟💖🫰💙 our heart has a very specific structure for it to function. To better understand how heart cells develop and come together to make the 3D organ crucial for us to live, researchers Neil Chi and Quan Zhu combined single-cell and high-tech imaging techniques to create a detailed heart cell atlas. This map helps scientists understand how different heart cells develop and interact, so we can get closer to new treatments for dangerous conditions where the heart develops abnormally, including congenital heart defects. 📷: Quan Zhu, @ucsandiego #imaging #science #SingleCell #biology