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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students whiz around this slimy beating heart and crawl under the tubes ...

A new frog species has been discovered hopping around South America - with nothing to hide. The Guajira Giant Glass Frog lives on an isolated mountain range in Colombia. It's described as a ...

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a ...

Researchers have developed a molecule that could help to map — and potentially mend — the hard-to-see cells that keep the heart beating 1. The cardiac conduction system (CCS) is a network of heart ...

New study reveals that heart cells in zebrafish start beating suddenly and all at once to form a synchronized heartbeat. In developing zebrafish hearts, each cell can beat on its own, and unlike in an ...