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

Alabama woman becomes longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant, defying expectations and paving the way for future xenotransplantation.

WellSpan Health organizers and community members came together at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center to bring heart health ...

Medtronic uses them to develop blockbuster devices. A beating pig heart on Jan. 21, 2025, at the University of Minnesota's Visible Heart Lab in Minneapolis. At the U's heart lab, millions of ...

Researchers say they are one step closer to tooth regeneration in humans thanks to new developments in growing bioengineered ...

At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

testing whether genetically modified pig organs can work long-term in human patients. The recipient, Tim Andrews of Concord, ...

Meanwhile, people slowly get sicker on dialysis — five-year survival is about 50% — and Andrews already had had a heart ...

Understanding where to shoot a hog comes down to understanding wild pig anatomy. Here's what hog hunters need to know.

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Malorie Blackman’s novel about 13-year-old schoolboy Cameron whose failing heart is replaced with that of a pig to give him a chance of survival, was a massive success in the late 1990s, spawning a ...