While exploring the “dark heart” of the human genome, geneticists have now found some of the most ancient pieces of DNA, inherited from Neanderthals and an as-yet-unknown human relative, which ...

Listen to Yiyun Li read “Any Human Heart.” Every Monday, this woman entered a gray building next to the gas station a little before eleven and exited before noon. Therapy.

The most important factor that separates Dark Waters from other true stories involving legal procedure, is that it doesn’t forget to tell the very human story that inspired it in the first place.

Dr. Bartley Griffith transplanted a pig heart into David Bennett, who knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but was willing to try.

Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center transplanted a heart from a genetically modified pig into a human patient with terminal heart disease Friday. It was the first successful pig ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

A study published in Nature Communications reveals the first documented case of blue eyes in a 17,000-year-old newborn from the Paleolithic era, born with a heart condition. The remains of the ...

U.S. doctors have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life — a first for medical science.

Doctors have transplanted the heart from a genetically modified pig into the chest of a man from Maryland in a last-ditch effort to save his life. The first-of-its-kind surgery is being hailed as ...

Topline The Biden Administration fired back at House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) comments blaming the “hearts” of shooters, not the weapons themselves, for gun violence on Friday ...