Lynda Roscoe Hartigan directs the Peabody Essex Museum, where she first began working two decades ago. Despite helming a museum that dates to 1799, Hartigan is forward-thinking about the role museums ...

Scientists have identified novel genetic interactions that may contribute to congenital heart disease (CHD), a common birth defect.

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have identified novel genetic interactions that may contribute to congenital heart disease (CHD), a common birth defect.

If you’ve ever wondered what the inside of your body looks like, a local exhibit will give you a close-up look at the organs, bones, muscles, and more that make up ...

Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women, but it often presents differently depending on sex. There are sex ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

Not all scars are created equal. That's the conclusion of a new study by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers: They found that two distinct types of scars, referred to as "hot" and "cold," can ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...