A heart attack cuts off blood flow and oxygen to heart tissue. This can damage muscle and, in severe cases, cause the heart ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far. A new multi-chamber ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

This might make your heart skip a beat. Microplastics commonly found in food packaging and paints have been discovered in the human heart for the first time. The alarming find was made by a team ...

Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene-edited pig on Sept. 20 after his own heart began to fail. He was not a candidate for a human heart transplant because his medical condition ...

Pig heart transplanted into living human for the second time ever By Nadia Kounang, CNN Sep 22, 2023 Updated Sep 22, 2023 0 1 of 2 ...

In another moment shared by UMMC, Faucette is seen going over scans of his heart with his doctors. “The one looks like a completely normal heart. And that’s definitely what we wanted,” he says.

The heart was later found to be infected with a pig virus that had escaped screening, although other factors may have also played a role in the transplant’s failure and Bennett’s death.

Journal Reference: Wouter Derks et al. A latent cardiomyocyte regeneration potential in human heart disease. Circulation, 2024 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.067156 ...