the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body.

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we cannot grow new limbs, our bodies still react in pretty miraculous ways when ...

This clip is an introduction to the human heart. We find out about its location within the body and its function as a pump. The heart sits within the chest cavity between the lungs and is about ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the ...

Like any other muscle, the heart doesn’t need to work as hard ... “Space is just not very hospitable to the human body,” said Emmanuel Urquieta, chief medical officer at the Translational ...