Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

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

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The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...

A therapeutic solution to erectile dysfunction (ED) could soon be available, after groundbreaking advances in biomedical 3D printing by Chinese researchers. ED is surprisingly common: it affects more ...

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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 ...

Outside of the brain, the heart is probably the organ that you miss the most when ... engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades.

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.

The patient lived for eight days with the artificial organ until he received a donor’s heart. “I’m incredibly proud to witness the successful first-in-human implant of our Total Artificial ...