Background: Porcine genome editing has revolutionized xenotransplantation, recently enabling the first pig-to-human heart xenotransplants. However, the xeno-immune response in heart xenografts remains ...

BACKGROUND: Alternative splicing plays crucial roles in normal heart development and cardiac disease by influencing protein-coding sequences, functional domains, and molecular networks. However, a ...

We often hear that our eyes are the windows to our souls, but now scientists say they could also be windows to our heart health. A new study from St. George’s, University of London and other research ...

For animals, the physical properties of plastics may lead to harm such as blocked intestines. Animals are also injured when the plastics they ingest release the chemicals they contain. Some marine ...

Steve Tobin twists off a handful of Spanish moss from an oak tree and begins fiddling with it. Without looking at this raw material, he shapes the moss into a nest in seconds. A small rock plays the ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and ...

CALGARY - Donna Spencer, a prominent voice in amateur sports coverage and the longtime leader of The Canadian Press's Olympic team, is the winner of this year’s Randy Starkman Award for leadership in ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences ...

Leiden-based Leyden Laboratories, a clinical-stage biotech company, has secured €30M in new equity financing from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund and Invest-NL. Contentlockr The European ...

Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage.

CorWave, a clinical-stage medical device company dedicated to the fight against heart failure, today announced the presentation of interim results from its FIH study evaluating its Left Ventricular ...

Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that ...