A team of biomechanical engineers at the University of New South Wales, working with a colleague from Queensland University of Technology and cardiac surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, has ...

"Understanding this system better could lead to new insights into heart diseases and help develop new treatments for diseases such as arrhythmias." The study was conducted on zebrafish, an animal ...

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

Tasting and spitting out toxic food is a survival trait shared by many complex organisms. Now MIT researchers have shown that a simple roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, has the ability to spit out ...

Human heart muscle cells show changes in the way they operate in space, although they behave normally within 10 days after returning to the Earth, according to a study. The research, published in the ...

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

BOSTON and GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Dec. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medera Inc. (“Medera”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting difficult-to-treat or currently incurable ...

Unlike many other organs, the human heart almost never develops cancer. But why? The answer lies in the heart’s unique structure and the way its cells function. This fascinating look into medical ...