Soft robotic heart, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Tested in six pigs, which had all suffered from acute cardiac arrest, the silicone robotic device was able to restore normal blood flow to the animals and keep them alive.

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Scientists developed a soft robotic sleeve which supports heart function. Tests done in pig hearts show that the device restores acutely failing hearts to 97 percent of their original cardiac output. More research is needed before the sleeve can be implanted in humans

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Soft robotic sleeve supports heart function
Ellen T. Roche, Markus A. Horvath, Isaac Wamala, Ali Alazmani, Sang-Eun Song, William Whyte, Zurab Machaidze, Christopher J. Payne, James C. Weaver, Gregory Fishbein, Joseph Kuebler, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, David J. Mooney, Frank A. Pigula, Conor J. Walsh
Science Translational Medicine, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf3925

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