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 ...

allowing him to regain strength and mobility before ultimately receiving a real human heart transplant. For the first time, a person with a totally artificial heart was discharged from the ...

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 ...

and so-called bioengineers are working overtime to develop artificial organs, grow skin and other body parts in the laboratory, and even propagate whole, living organs, including the human heart.

Around that same time, Shinya Yamanaka’s discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) opened the door to reprogramming adult human cells. This presented an exciting opportunity to combine the ...

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 ...

A long-term replacement for a failing human heart is regarded as one of ... but lifesaving, total artificial heart transplant. Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Paul Jansz, who performed the operation ...