How do you make a working human heart? Scientists can turn stem cells into beating heart cells, but getting them to organize into a 3D heart requires a scaffold. At the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Harald Ott and his team are reusing the scaffold that nature provides. They're stripping...

spectacular romp around the world with 192 of NYC’s sexiest dancers and two wild and worldly standing-room-only audiences led to a sensational evening of record-breaking modern-day burlesque at Broadway Bares: Take Off. Produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Bares:

Allergy season information Over 35 million Americans experience seasonal allergies, especially during the spring time. The best way to deal with your allergies is to start taking medicine a few weeks before you anticipate experiencing symptoms according to television show "The DRs."Common seasonal a...

More than 80% of the ocean floor is still unexplored. An un-crewed robotic surface vessel that can deploy and recover autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) has been developed. The team behind the technology, GEBCO-NF, won this year’s Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE which looks for the best new technolog

While AIDS came to prominence in the 1980s, a new study published Friday says it was actually around decades before, in the 1920s.
In what an international team of scientists are calling a "perfect storm" for spreading the virus, they think its proliferation started in the city of Kinshasa, the cap...

Mom gave a blood sample. Dad spit. The entire genome of their fetus was born. Researchers at the University of Washington have, for the first time, done a near-total genome sequence of a fetus in this way. Scientists published the results of this study in the journal Science Translational Medicine, ...

Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and author who was called the “poet laureate of medicine” died in his New York City home Sunday. He was 82. “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” spoke with Sacks in 1989. Joanna Simon asked him how he would like to be remembered in 100 years: “I would like it to be thou

From land to sea to space, the world’s scientists are using incredible tools to uncover our planet’s history and tell us where we are headed. These are the top 10 largest mega-tools of science.

Performed on the shores of the Great South Bay July 15-17, Fire Island Dance Festival raised $655,090 to help ensure those across the country living with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other debilitating illnesses have access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, housing and more. Produced b

The controversial journalist/activist Randy Shilts (1951-1994), author of "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic," and "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military," "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" is interviewed about his cont