Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in 'magic' mushrooms, may help delay aging by increasing the cellular lifespan of ...

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting ...

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Humans can't regenerate heart muscle damaged by disease, but scientists have long known that some animals, such as zebrafish, can.Researchers have now ...

Scientists have found a novel way that includes a new lab-grown material that could help slow and even reverse some of the ...

The pig’s heart was graying rapidly, so McCully decided to try it. He loaded a syringe with the extracted mitochondria and ...

T he heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

The Martik team is currently using CRISPR technology—a common gene-editing technique—on human heart cells in lab dishes to determine if these genes can be reactivated.

Many women with serious underlying medical conditions like heart disease need birth control that won't make their conditions ...

million wisdom teeth are removed every year, but the process of sending them to a biobank could be very simple.

Learn how doctors may eventually be able to tell whether your cells are aging prematurely without needles, blood tests, or expensive lab work.