This breakthrough comes at a crucial time, as the demand for heart transplants far exceeds the available donor organs. With less than 6,000 heart transplants performed worldwide annually ...

That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a ...

Doctors at NYU Langone recently conducted transplant surgery in which they placed a pig's heart inside a human body. Dr.

These approaches allow scientists to study human organs during health and ... that are usually found in the human heart. They even beat like the real thing. Researchers have grown 3D lung ...

In medical history, though, both are already familiar themes. Physician J. Andrew Armour argued that the heart holds memories ...

A curious phenomenon has been reported among people who have undergone heart transplants. For some, they believe that they may have received more than just an organ in the exchange, as they report ...