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

The consumption of sufficient dietary fiber is a fundamental requirement for maintaining optimum health. The body benefits ...

A new trial suggests that people with heart disease who have higher blood potassium levels have a lower risk of heart failure ...

In a new study, University of California, Irvine chemical and biomolecular engineering researchers report the creation of ...

A multicenter study coordinated by the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) involving 26 European centers provides new insights into the course of the disease, prognosis assessment, and risk factors for ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have successfully conducted experiments to treat damage caused by heart attacks in non-human primates using gene therapy for the first time. More than 800,000 ...

This study provides valuable insights into human valve development by integrating snRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics to characterize cell populations and regulatory programs in the embryonic and ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients.

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials.

In a remarkable leap forward for cardiac care, French medical device company Carmat has introduced the Aeson artificial heart ...

In the early 2000s, Drew persuaded the U.S. military to fund a search for the brain chemicals that trigger hibernation in the squirrels. If she could identify those chemicals, she suggested, she could ...