When SpaceX's 20th resupply mission lifted off to the International Space Station in March 2020, beating heart cells were along for the ride. After 22 days, the heart cells were returned to Earth -- ...

A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed. Scientists discovered that after just eight days aboard the International Space Station, human heart cells ...

My most impactful museum visit was at The New Museum, seeing Pepon Osorio’s exhibition, My Beating Heart/Mi Corazon Latiente. It was such an intense exhibition and it filled me with so many emotions, ...

MASON CITY — The lives of two North Iowa families converged in a profoundly beautiful way Wednesday, forever joined by a beating heart. Clear Lake resident Loren Toomsen, 66, who three months ago ...