Our question is, how much do you know about some of the greatest athletic achievements of all time? This quiz will help you find out whether your knowledge of sports records is up to scratch. Below, ...

A woman in her 70s has contracted West Nile virus (WNV), marking the first human case in Massachusetts of the season, state health officials announced Tuesday. The virus is typically transmitted ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

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 ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

The first time you take a real punch to the face, everything stops. The sharp crack of bone, the dizzying blur of lights, the taste of iron in your mouth — your body screams at you to stay out of the ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have successfully conducted experiments to treat damage caused by heart attacks in nonhuman primates using gene therapy for the first time. Now, researchers ...

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, ...

In 2024, an Australian man became the first patient in the world to be discharged from the hospital with a fully implanted artificial heart, marking a major breakthrough in transplant technology. The ...

What Ancient Stoics and Modern Neuroscience Teach Us About Emotional Control I made my first formal court appearance as a newly sworn-in lawyer about a quarter of a century ago. I remember standing in ...

Adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) is currently considered the benchmark vector for clinical cardiac gene transfer applications but can entail severe hepatotoxicity because of its strong ...