Beating patch is as strong and electrically active as healthy adult heart Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough... Read more
One step ahead towards the artificial heart An artificial heart would be an absolute lifesaver for people with cardiac failure. However, to recreate the complex organ in the laboratory, one... Read more
ETH researchers from the Functional Materials Laboratory have developed a silicone heart that beats almost like a human heart. In collaboration with colleagues from the Product Development G... Read more
Cotton candy machines may hold the key for making life-sized artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical e... Read more
“3-D heart models and performance of virtual heart implantations are no longer the inventions of science fiction” Some firsts in the history of artificial heart implantation are being... Read more
The first Carmat bioprosthetic artificial heart to ever be implanted in a human Last Wednesday in Paris, a 75 year-old man received an artificial heart. That in itself might not be newsworth... Read more