Heart disease, which kills millions each year, remains the world’s leading cause of death. While cardiac research has mainly focused on heart attacks as isolated episodes, Assistant Professor Vineet ...

Background: Porcine genome editing has revolutionized xenotransplantation, recently enabling the first pig-to-human heart xenotransplants. However, the xeno-immune response in heart xenografts remains ...

Ever wondered why your heart isn’t sitting neatly in the middle of your chest? This science-meets-comedy routine takes a hilarious look at anatomy, evolution, and the quirks of the human body - ...

Aortic dissection is a rare yet life-threatening condition where the aorta, the main blood vessel carrying blood from the heart, develops a tear. This tear spreads rapidly, and without treatment, it ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

In the early minutes of La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical “The Heart,” a giant 3-D model of a human heart slowly revolves on a large video screen behind the stage. It’s an appropriate ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacts to MSNBC host Jen Psaki saying prayer is not enough in a monologue on the shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school's church. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA ...

Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, ...

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Next week, La Jolla Playhouse will unveil its latest world premiere musical, "The Heart." Here's how a play about a human heart came to life. Human organs aren’t usually the leading characters in a ...