Soft hearted
The first entirely soft artificial heart developed by functional materials engineering students at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, is roughly the same size as the patient’s own one and it imitates the human heart as closely as possible in form and function. The artificial ‘blood pumps’ used now have mechanical parts and don’t ‘beat’. This heart was created from silicone using 3D-printing, lost-wax casting technique; it
TT Bureau
Published 24.07.17, 12:00 AM
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
