When your heart “skips a beat” it may feel like a brief flutter or flip-flop in your chest. A scary symptom that is usually harmless, that skipped beat feeling is actually an extra beat that ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The simple, constant rhythm of a beating heart is a reassuring sign of life. With each lub-dub, blood brings life-sustaining oxygen throughout ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

A soft robotic sleeve made of silicone could help a human heart keep beating, according to a new report published Wednesday. For the millions suffering from heart failure and other cardiac issues ...