Scientists are studying how stem cells grow in space in the hope of developing better treatments for cancer and other serious diseases. Research carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS ...

A tiny sea creature might hold the secret to reversing the aging process. When treated with a brief series of electrical pulses, sea squirts experience dramatic and long-lasting health improvements ...

Domen, a senior scientist in stem cell operations at Stanford School of Medicine, decided to turn the unusual moment into a ...

Chinese scientists have achieved an important medical breakthrough by creating the world’s first laboratory-grown sinoatrial node, often called the heart’s master conductor. This tiny part of the ...

Scientists in Shanghai have created the world’s first lab-grown sinoatrial node, the tiny structure that controls the heart’s ...

Boston Scientific announced multiple recalls but has said its battery issues were limited. One internal test in 2025 found batteries with an “extremely high failure rate.” Credit...Illustration by Mel ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a chronic condition with substantial morbidity and reliance on proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). Long-term adverse effects of PPIs, ...

ABSTRACT: Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract, accounting for approximately 1% of primary malignant gastrointestinal ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

Introduction: The sinoatrial node (SAN) is heterogeneous and comprises pacemaker cells (PCs), atrial cardiomyocytes (ACMs), transitional zone (TZ) cells, and stromal cells. Epicardial cells (Epics) ...

Introduction: Tissue elasticity is essential to proper cell biology and organ function including the heart. Cell culture models on rigid polystyrene dishes are limited in studying the impact of tissue ...