Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students whiz around this slimy beating heart and crawl under the tubes connected to ...

This disembodied heart, beating on its own in a cinderblock-walled ... The staff first takes images of the heart using inserted, lit cameras that make the organ glow like an alien creature.