Researchers have made significant strides towards restoring brain function after someone has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. The advancements came after Chinese scientists revived the brains of pigs that had gone without blood circulation for nearly an hour, and the secret to their success came from an unexpected source – the liver. Sudden cardia...

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

Biologists Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov published their findings on biobots in the journal Physiology

"If it's taken us 18 years just to get ready to do the first people in orbit, we've got to improve our rate of innovation."