Surgery

Johns Hopkins' autonomous surgery robot, STAR, performed a tricky keyhole surgery on live pigs better than a human surgeon could.

A brain-dead man was the recipient of two pig kidneys — a groundbreaking transplant that could help bring the organ shortage to an end.

A pig heart is now beating in the chest of a man in Maryland, marking a huge step forward for xenotransplantation research.

Chicago’s Surgical Innovation Training Lab is developing the robots, surgeons, and digital surgeries of the future.

A U.K. hospital is using VR to help parents see the potential impact skull-reshaping surgery could have on their baby’s appearance.

A procedure that used frozen testicular tissue to restore fertility in animals could soon do the same for childhood cancer survivors.

A treatment that could dramatically extend the lives of children born with the rare condition athymia has been approved by the FDA.

The next new surgical tool may come from an odd place: parasitic wasps whose eggs eat their hosts inside-out.

A coating for donor organs that minimized the chance of transplant rejection in mice might one day eliminate the need for immunosuppressants.

Researchers at Harvard have developed a 3D-printed graft they hope will make ruptured eardrum surgeries safer, faster, and more effective.