Our artificial heart is without a doubt the most advanced innovation in the field.
Lederman has spent nearly his entire adult life in search of the perfect artificial heart.
"He used to say 'Bud, by 1980, 100, 000 Americans will be on the artificial heart, '" recalls Frazier.
Dr. Starr is best known for co-inventing and successfully implanting the first artificial heart valve, the Starr-Edwards valve.
People making things that require a little bit more training, things like advanced -- artificial heart valves or surgical robots.
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Leaders in heart replacement technology, such as Thermo Cardiosystems and Thoratec Laboratories have long shied away from making a permanent artificial heart.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s came the first artificial hips, developed by British surgeons, and then the first artificial heart valves.
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Coulton also treated us to three songs, including "Still Alive" from the Portal soundtrack and two tracks off his brand new record Artificial Heart.
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This includes people with conditions such as an artificial heart valve, past history of endocarditis or a heart transplant with abnormal heart valve function.
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Hero worship has become unfashionable except for pop stars, but Charles gets a mention in scientific journals for his work on the artificial heart.
This week, America's Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to a new type of artificial heart made by Abiomed, a firm based near Boston.
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Bud Frazier, of the Texas Heart Institute, likes to tell the story of William Hall, who worked in 1964 with Domingo Liotta on an artificial heart.
In 1949 Yale Medical School student William Sewell used Erector girders, an Erector motor and rubber flaps from a party noisemaker to craft the first functional artificial heart.
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In 1949 William Sewell, a student at Yale Medical School, used Erector girders, an Erector motor and rubber flaps from a party noisemaker to craft the first functional artificial heart.
After that, perhaps even ordinary investors will be given the chance to own a slice of the artificial heart, as Pouletty believes the company could be floated once the opportunity becomes available.
Since the FDA gave the big thumbs up to a fully implantable artificial heart earlier this month, cardiac surgeon "Bud" Frazier and his team at the Texas Heart Institute aren't wasting any time in developing what they hope will be a fully-functioning, pulse-free artificial heart.
The Acorn approach is a new one, in a field where the only options have included drugs, cardiac resynchronization devices and, in the worst cases, heart transplants or artificial hearts.
Imagine a truly artificial, man-made heart, one that is completely self-contained and is able to adapt itself automatically to the body's needs--whether taking a nap or running for a bus.
That explanation is a bit simplistic, but it gets to the heart of what the Artificial General Intelligence network is theoretically capable of.
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Some 20 million Americans now walk around embedded with high-tech gear: artificial hips and knee joints, pacemakers, heart defibrillators and more.
Artificial hearts are nothing new: AbioMed implanted its first replacement heart unit in 2001, and as far back as the 1980s the considerably more cumbersome Jarvik 7 was unveiled to the public.
They could be used to build an artificial artery in a test tube or the stem cells could be injected straight into the heart and they could form within it.
They're audaciously, passionately artificial and at the same time unabashedly romantic -- post-modern pop medleys aimed at the heart, not the brain.
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