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 ...

DETROIT – There have been many technological breakthroughs in recent years that have helped get lifesaving organs to patients -- the latest combines a newer technology with a very exciting new ...

The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students ...

The two strangers were tethered by tragedy: An FDNY veteran whose heart was transplanted into a fellow New Yorker after a tragic on-the-job death. Deeply appreciative recipient Richard Grehl, in an ...