For decades, the working assumption in cardiology has been simple and grim: once heart muscle dies during a heart attack, it's gone for good. A new study from the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute, and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital... Continue Reading →
For decades, our picture of how the body kills dangerous or infected cells has been built almost entirely around blood-derived immune cells, T cells, natural killer cells, neutrophils. A new study out of Stanford, published in Cell, just added something... Continue Reading →
The type of salamander called axolotl, with its frilly gills and widely spaced eyes, looks like an alien and has other-worldly powers of regeneration. Lose a limb, part of the heart or even a large portion of its brain? No... Continue Reading →