Ypsilanti boy is state's first child to receive total artificial heart: ‘A Hail Mary’
To watch him play, it would be easy to presume Lev'Veon is an ordinary, strong and healthy 10-year-old boy, but he is ...
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
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Australian Man Lived With a Fully Artificial Heart for Over 100 Days—Here’s How It Saved His Life
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 ...
In world first, man leaves hospital with titanium heart
The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, ...
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Could titanium hearts be a solution to a global heart donor shortage?
In July 2024, a 57-year-old man with end-stage heart failure received the BiVACOR TAH at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas in the United States. This was the first human ...
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A Beating Heart on a Chip
1 By turning patient-derived stem cells into cardiovascular cells and growing them in a microfluidic chip, the team coaxed the cells to better mirror the morphology and function of cells in a human ...
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Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days — a world first
The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is recovering well, according to a statement from St Vincent’s ...