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 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 ...

In the nine-hour surgery, doctors replaced his heart with one from a 1-year-old, 240-pound pig gene-edited and bred specifically for this purpose. Bennett is breathing on his own without a ...

Currently, most medical device prototypes designed for use in heart surgery are tested on live pigs, which have heart valves that are anatomically similar to human heart valves. However, these ...

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 ...

One of the first researchers to examine the possibility of discarding the heart-lung machine - in favor of beating-heart surgery - provides an insightful look at both the history and the future of ...

Amid Russian attacks on Ukraine, Dr. Borys Todurov transported a donor heart across the city to save a young girl's life.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...