For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...
Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...
Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...
Two separate teams of researchers have found a way to grow blood vessels within lab-grown organs. The creation of miniature organs in the lab, such as tiny replicas of hearts, livers, and lungs, has ...
Lev'Veon Jones-White was a healthy, 10-year-old athlete when his heart stopped in August, and he nearly died. Doctors at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital tried CPR for an hour, but his heart would not ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Some organ transplant recipients claim to have inherited more than just a new lease on life; they report acquiring new emotions, tastes, and even memories. These experiences, which ...