Research shows that hibernating bears prevent blood clots by keeping a low level of a key protein in their blood. Experts are hopeful that future medications may help prevent blood clots in humans.

Areas of hibernating myocardium are common in patients with heart failure arising from coronary artery disease, Canty noted. "Determining how this impacts prognosis is the focus of the UB ...

Scientists studied hibernating bears in Sweden. Getty Images/iStockphoto. They took blood samples again during their “active months” over the summer between June 2019 and 2022.

The hibernating astronaut in a Mars-bound capsule would not only save the agency cost for water, food and oxygen. He or she would, most likely, wake up rather fit, ...

The discovery of a hibernation-like state in an Early Triassic species suggests animals may have been using torpor to avoid the challenges of winter for at least 250 million years.

A family in Connecticut recently discovered a black bear hibernating underneath their deck, and they were able to capture the animal on video. On Dec. 30, Plainville-resident Vincent Dashukewich ...

In 2019, restaurateur Andres Branger and his partners had three Orinoco: A Latin Kitchen restaurants in Boston. Now, he has only one. As of November 17, two locations are officially hibernating ...

Home Topics Cancer Hunger-Stressed Cells Have Hibernating, Mitochondria-Hugging Ribosomes In starved fission yeast, the ribosomes attach to the mitochondrial outer membrane via their small subunit.