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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Deep in a chest opened by surgical saw and knife, a scalpel carefully cuts a tiny hole in a major artery on the side of the beating heart. Blood spews in a pencil-lead-thin stream but stops ...