Scientists have for the first time captured the moment a heart begins to form from embryonic stem cells. In astonishing ...

A new gene therapy reversed heart failure in pigs by repairing heart function through cBIN1, showing major promise for future ...

The Human Cell Atlas, developed by an international consortium of cytologists, molecular biologists, and data scientists, uses single-cell RNA sequencing, high-dimensional cytometry, and computational ...

The gene-environment interaction of colon cancer and aspirin is unusual. It involves a mutation at a single location in the genome that has a big effect on colon cancer risk. The past 25 years of ...

Horses honed skills such as running, jumping and pulling as humans bred and trained them for various purposes over millennia.

A single serving of an erythritol-sweetened drink could harm brain and blood vessel health, a new cellular study suggests.

Organ transplant is a potentially lifesaving medical intervention, but there is a critical lack of donor organs. Even in a ...

In 2014, Sadek saw hints that heart muscle cells in patients with LVADs might be dividing. But there was no solid proof until now. “This is the strongest evidence we have, so far, that human ...

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

New research shows that the gum disease bacterium P. gingivalis can slip into the bloodstream and infiltrate the heart. There, it quietly drives scar tissue buildup -- distorting the heart's ...

While Nrf2 protects heart cells from stress and inflammation ... and dysregulated intracellular protein-protein interactions are the cause of many human diseases,” Gianneschi said. “Existing drug ...

It's notable when a scientific study reaches the decade mark, but when the topic is the healthy aging of people who have lived 10 times as long, it just means there's still a lot more to learn.