Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one, with a focus on a valve on the left side of the heart. The heart valve ...

My daughter was two when she got her first pacemaker. She needed it because of a congenital condition that had reversed the lower chambers of her heart. That resulted in electrical problems—making her ...