Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?

A human body functions depends on Earth's gravity, hence the weightlessness of space can have noticeable affects on it, which ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a titanium heart. He is recovering well after getting a new, donor heart ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

In a classroom at Middle High School, a student quite literally holds someone’s heart in their hands. It’s a real organ — not a model — which ...

The device kept him alive for more than 100 days, allowing him to regain strength and mobility before ultimately receiving a real human heart transplant. For the first time, a person with a totally ...

In a classroom at Saratoga Middle High School, a student quite literally holds someone’s heart in their hands. It’s a real organ — not a model — which ...

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

The man lived with the device for more than three months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is ... pulses throughout the body. A cord tunnelled under the skin ...