Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made almost entirely of muscle. And you can see the ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

A scientific technique that rapidly increases the body's production of anti-inflammatory cells promotes healing from heart ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. "HCM is one of the ...

The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is recovering well, according to a statement from St Vincent’s ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

A scientific technique that rapidly increases the body's production of anti-inflammatory cells promoted healing from heart attacks in mice, according to a new study. Once adapted to treat humans, the ...

Congestive refers to fluid buildup in organs which results in symptoms such as shortness of breath and swelling in the legs, ...

Embryo-like cells turned into heart muscle But the new approach is different ... which had been done before the human trial could begin, have also now been made available – but these are ...

Researchers have developed a powerful AI tool, built on the same transformer architecture used by large language models like ChatGPT, to process an entire night's sleep. To date, it is one of the ...