The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, ...

As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution.

Find out what happens to heart cells in space and how their adaptation could revolutionize heart disease treatment.

When we move, it's harder for existing wearable devices to accurately track our heart activity. But researchers found that a starfish's five-arm shape helps solve this problem. Inspired by how a ...

A Tampa company has made realistic synthetic humans to help train students and surgeons. The company says the new models will ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females. A study led by bioengineers at the University of ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

Entering space changes the human body – and initially that feels awesome. "It feels like a holiday," astronaut Tim Peake, who went to the ISS in 2015, says. "Your heart is having an easy time.

Diastolic heart failure causes a stiff left ventricle that prevents the heart from relaxing between beats. Common symptoms include coughing, tiredness, and shortness of breath. Systolic and ...

BiVACOR A man in Australia spent more than 100 days with a titanium heart pumping blood around his body while he waited for a human heart transplant. His case marks the longest anyone has lived ...

In July 2024, a 57-year-old man with end-stage heart failure received the BiVACOR TAH at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas in the United States. This was the first human ...

The excavation and research team at Atapuerca receives funding from the Castille and León Department of Culture and Tourism, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2021 ...