How do human organs develop and what happens to them when they become diseased? To answer these questions, researchers are ...

New research reveals that the heart has its own complex nervous system, or "mini-brain," which plays a critical role in ...

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat heart ...

For decades, scientists believed the heart was a normal organ controlled entirely by the brain. However, groundbreaking ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good ...

New research shows that the heart has a mini-brain -- its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat. A better understanding of this system, which is much more diverse and complex than previously ...

In the attempt to calculate the power of the human heart for a given time, we shall arrive at some curious and interesting, not to say astonishing results. Few would credit, at first, the ...

Clutching a human heart model, Dr Hilary urged followers with the earnest reminder: "Take a look at this, this is exactly what your heart looks like. I think you'll agree, considering what it does ...