Just eight days later, that's exactly what happened: the artificial heart was replaced with a human heart and the patient was discharged. Since then, four more patients in the US have used the BiVACOR ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

Forward-looking: Approximately five percent of adults listed for a heart transplant in the US die each year while waiting for a suitable donor heart. One of these patients, however, beat the odds by ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa General Hospital is one of the first in the country to attempt a new method for patients with congestive heart failure. Doctors successfully transplanted a heart that never ...

Scientists at the University of North Texas report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown replicas of human organs.

Heart transplant patients who underwent a pioneering form of surgery have reunited with the medics who saved their lives to mark the 10th anniversary of the first operation of its kind. A group of 20 ...

Scientists believe that new research has revealed that our hearts have a “little brain” that controls them and play a key role in maintaining and controlling your heartbeat. When a heart is taken out ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

PARIS, Dec 20 (Reuters) - France's Carmat said on Friday it had carried out its first implant of an artificial heart that can beat for up to five years, adding that the operation had gone smoothly.

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for 21 days, and in that time their tiny hearts started beating. The findings ...