Sana Nasim, Popular Pandey, Rosemerie M. Kanashiro-Takeuchi, Jin He, Joshua D. Hutcheson, and Lisi Kos recently published a paper looking at the relationship between aortic valve pigmentation and elasticity, building on their previously-published work. Their full manuscript is publicly available in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. Here, we summarize their findings. The aortic valve is necessary for unidirectional…