In recent years, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, has been a main contributor to the opioid crisis. One of the worst adverse effects of fentanyl abuse is ...

The results of a study by researchers at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) suggest ...

Columbia Engineering researchers have shown, for the first time, that electrical stimulation of human heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) engineered from human stem cells aids their development and ...

Japan has granted the world’s first approval for an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based therapy for severe heart failure, marking a milestone in regenerative medicine. The treatment, ReHeart, ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that the heart's own contractions trigger biological signals that guide the formation of a functional beating heart. Their study in zebrafish ...