Organ transplants might never be the same again. Scientists have successfully 3D printed a human heart, marking a huge leap ...

Jeremy M. Large A "ghost" pig heart stripped of its tissue cells. Some researchers hope to transplant such organs into people after seeding them with human cells. Texas Heart Institute Researchers ...

Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution.

“It was not the last because … my heart really struggled to keep up with the rest of my body, and as a result, I (had) low cardiac output, syncope, which means having a fainting spell.” ...

The device uses a magnetically suspended rotor to pump blood throughout the body and lungs at regular intervals—just like a regular human heart would. The patient remained in the hospital under ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by crosslinking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications.

When Renz was 17, her body started rejecting that heart and she had to come back for a second one. "For my second transplant, you know, I remember every detail of that. I remember the struggle ...