A man in Australia has become one of the first humans to survive without a biological heart—thanks to a revolutionary ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have successfully grown tiny human hearts in pig embryos that survived up to 21 ...

When non-surgical medical intervention is no longer enough for patients ... the most commonly transplanted organs in the country are the kidney, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, and intestines.

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically ... There are currently no clinical trials that utilize pig organs for transplants in living human beings.

One month after a Maryland man received an experimental pig heart transplant, the patient is doing well and shows no sign of infection or rejection of the organ, doctors say. "We are withdrawing ...

But initial testing missed that the organ harbored an animal virus. What caused Bennett’s new heart to fail and whether that virus played any role still isn’t known, the Maryland researchers ...

Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors ... death and before the heart can be salvaged, “there’s that period of both poor blood flow and no blood flow that ...

The tiny tot from Manchester, England, was recently fitted with a life-saving mechanical ventricular assistant device known as the “Berlin Heart” as she stands on the waiting list for an organ ...

The researchers said this shows the system can repair some functions in cells across multiple vital organs that would otherwise have died. For example, the researchers observed how heart cells ...

The heart “is not the most chemically complex organ, but it’s certainly the most passionate,” Rubelowsky said. “That’s why I love doing this. There’s no other organ like that.” ...