A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This ...

Lawyers for Derek Chauvin, the former Minnesota police officer who murdered George Floyd in 2021, wants to see if it was a heart condition — and not Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck — that led ...

The woman, 60-year-old Denise Ann Prudhomme, was found dead at her third-floor desk in Tempe on Aug. 20, ... myocardial fibrosis occurs when there is a buildup of scar tissue in the heart muscle.

A new study found chemicals can leach from plastic takeout containers into food, impacting the gut biome—and then the heart Getty Eating from plastic takeout containers can increase your risk of ...

The human heart has been found to show signs of aging after a mere month in space. Heart tissue samples aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were discovered to beat only around half as ...

In a tragic news, model and actress Shefali Jariwala, best known for the 'Kaanta laga' song, reportedly passed away of a ...

The simulator accurately replicates how blood flows through the heart—something that existing benchtop simulators using dead heart tissue could not do. Using live heart tissue from a pig instead ...

A sack-like tissue called the pericardium surrounds the heart. Inflammation of the pericardium causes symptoms similar to a heart attack. This condition is called pericarditis, and the cause is ...

The heart has a very limited ability to repair or replace damaged or dead tissue, the study authors noted in their report. But several studies suggest that after an injury, like a heart attack, a ...

Brain-dead patients can be used to gather information not safely collected on the living and offer doctors an opportunity to practice before implanting gene-edited pig organs into live people.