An international research team has uncovered a new insight into human evolution by comparing humans' hearts with those of other great apes. An international research team from Swansea University and ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a large team of researchers from the United States (U.S.) used single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing combined with high-resolution ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far. A new multi-chamber organoid ...

Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...

Type 2 diabetes directly alters the heart's structure and energy systems, which explains why people with diabetes are at ...

David Bennett Sr. received a new heart from a genetically modified pig. A 57-year-old man who underwent a first-of-its-kind heart transplant involving a genetically-modified pig heart is in a "much ...

A rat study has found that aerobic exercise may reshape nerves that control the heart. However, the impact was not the same ...

The influence of the heart and circulatory system occurs within milliseconds, and every single heartbeat plays a role. The role of the heart in the psyche and cognition is evident in the high ...