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At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

The New York Police Department’s Harbor Unit pulled the remains out of the river near Governor's Island around 5:30 p.m.

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...