In a groundbreaking first for Canada, surgeons at Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) have successfully completed a heart transplant using a donor whose heart had stopped beating, a technique ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common hereditary heart disease. It causes the left ventricle to thicken, the ...

In another Canadian first, a multidisciplinary team from UHN's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Ajmera Transplant Centre transplanted a heart which had stopped beating before donation. TORONTO, Oct. 8, ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various genes and cells involved. But there is a broad range of these, and observations necessarily produce ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans Olivia Ferrari Sea lampreys have large neurons and synapses, making them ...

Veteran Punjabi actor and bodybuilder Varinder Singh Ghuman tragically passed away after suffering a heart attack. The unfortunate incident happened during what was believed to be a minor surgical ...

Farmers must be put at the heart of Artificial Intelligence (AI) system development to reap benefits, an AI conference has concluded. The message was delivered to 300 delegates at AI(Live), the UK’s ...

The subtitle of “Rehab,” Shoshana Walter’s book about the collective failure in this country regarding widespread drug addiction, says it all: “An American Scandal.” The Oakland-based Walter examines ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. (AP Video: Kostya Manekov, Lindsey Wasson) ...

The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...