The simple, constant rhythm of a beating heart is a reassuring sign of life. With each lub-dub, blood brings life-sustaining oxygen throughout the body. But behind this steady beat is a busy ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

Scientists may have discovered another way the human body tries to protect itself from cancer. New research on mice suggests ...

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