Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one, with a focus on a valve on the left side of the heart. The heart valve ...

Can we reboot the human heart? Yes, we can, and this could save many dying babies and adults who are waiting for a transplant ...

A Maryland man has lived for three days with a pig heart beating inside his chest. The surgery, at the University of Maryland, marks the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as an organ ...

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone successfully transplanted genetically engineered pig hearts into two patients who had recently been declared deceased from brain death. The procedures, known as ...

HEART disease is the number-one killer the world over and is particularly prevalent in T&T. As a result there is a high ...

Although revolutionary, beating-heart surgery will not totally replace traditional bypass surgery, Borst notes. "For many candidates, the conventional operation will remain the better choice.

The human heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, more than 86,000 times a day, 35 million times a year. A single beat pushes about 6 tablespoons of blood through the body. An organ that works that ...

The hope is that people with pacemakers, cochlear implants and heart monitors will one day be spared risky surgery when the batteries need replacing. Instead, our organs would power our electronics.

A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the animal's body, allowing researchers to expedite the ...

In new procedure, human heart never stops pumping, from donor to recipient. Dec. 8, 2010— -- An experimental new heart transplant procedure could change the way transplants are performed in ...

Dr. Julius Guccione, a 50-year-old cardiac researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was mesmerized the first time he saw a virtual image of a beating heart. He'd been using math ...

It may not have been put into practice just yet, but it looks like a new robotic-assisted system could one day let surgeons use a surgical robot (like Da Vinci system pictured at left) to operate ...