These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

Researchers at Empa are developing artificial muscles that could one day move like real ones. Using advanced 3D printing, they have created soft and elastic structures that contract and relax with ...

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s ...

The artificial kidney has been widely used when the natural organs are temporarily unable to do their work. Now several machines are being developed to replace the heart and lungs ...

The organ of choice was the penis, part of which was reconstructed in the lab using a hydrogel showing realistic functionality. The artificial organ was then implanted into rabbits and pigs with ...

This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until he could receive a donor heart.

Regenerative medicine includes the generation and use of therapeutic stem cells, tissue engineering and the production of artificial organs. Insights from the composition, structure and ...

why seasonal allergies may be tough this year, the areas of the world with the worst air pollution, and a breakthrough for organ transplantation in Australia.

A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.