The simple, constant rhythm of a beating heart is a reassuring sign of life. With each lub-dub, blood brings life-sustaining oxygen throughout the body. But behind this steady beat is a busy ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...