What if a broken heart was enough to warrant sick leave? In Japan, this isn't fiction. Tako-Tsubo syndrome, nicknamed "heart ...

Scientists from QIMR Berghofer's Cardiac Bioengineering Lab have developed lab-grown, three-dimensional heart tissues known ...

This means that organs can only be stored for a maximum of four hours on ice before they are rendered useless. Because of this, around 60 percent of donated organs have to be thrown away.