Canadian toddler Erika Nordby astonished doctors in February after she survived lying face down in the snow with her heart stopped for two hours. Nordby's complete recovery baffled her doctors and ...

Scientists have zapped mice and rats into a suspended-animation-like state called torpor. The state was induced by beaming ultrasound waves into a precise spot in the rodent's brains. This technique ...

The African turquoise killifish lives in ephemeral ponds in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. To survive the annual dry season, the fish’s embryos enter a state of extreme suspended animation or “diapause” for ...

Like a lot of kids growing up in the age of the Saturday morning cartoons, Chris Gardner loved animated movies and shows. Then one fateful day, his dad took him to a screening of Spike & Mike’s Sick & ...

If a patient or research study volunteer is having a blood draw at or near a research facility that can perform this type of experiment on site, time delay doesn’t come into play. But for research ...

A study suggests that a pain relief drug that can quickly and reversibly induce a sleep-like state in cells and organs could facilitate organ transplantation and prevent irreversible tissue injury.