There’s a reason that the Dodrill-GMR artificial heart looked like a car engine. Source: National Museum of American History, CC0 1.0 Once doctors were free to explore the human heart ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH (total artificial heart), which just had the first prototype implanted in a human patient. Unlike the typical membrane-based pumps, the BiVACOR ...

In a medical first, a man in Australia survived 100 days with no biological heart—only a titanium device pumping blood through his body. This isn’t science fiction—it’s the reality of cutting-edge ...

In the study, the tissue of patients with artificial hearts was analyzed ... "This is the strongest evidence we have, so far, ...

If anything, it looks like some ancient, misshapen pair of headphones, but in fact it’s one of the most famous medical devices of all time: the first artificial heart ever implanted in a human ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...

As part of an initial human feasibility study ... and what we can do to improve on that. With the new heart Daniel improved on previous artificial ones, which had largely supported only one ...

Human heart. (Photo: Features.co) After training, artificial intelligence was tested with a new group of 108 patients. They all went to the hospital for an angiogram. That is, an X-ray technique ...

He said artificial intelligence posed "new challenges ... our reflections must begin with the human heart." Read next Jump to ...