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Membrane Can Keep Your Heart Beating Perfectly

posted by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @05:30PM   
from the who-wants-to-live-forever? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that may one day help prevent heart attacks. Unlike existing pacemakers and implantable defibrillators that are one-size-fits-all, the new device is a thin, elastic membrane designed to stretch over the heart like a custom-made glove and may arrive to human hearts in 10 to 15 years.

They custom made it to precisely fit the shape of the rabbit's heart: First, while the rabbit was still alive, they scanned it and created a 3D model using computer aided tomography. They manufactured the model in a 3D printer, which they used as a mold to create the membrane. After that they took the heart out, applied the membrane, and kept it beating at a perfect pace.

The full article can be found here"

• Re:3D Printers Re:3D Printers (Score: 2, Funny) by bob_super on Monday March 03 2014, @08:25PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 03 2014, @08:25PM (#10211)

  Print legal tender.

  With technological progress, they'll do soon, but then we'll all change our currency to the leaf.

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• Re:3D Printers Re:3D Printers (Score: 1) by efitton on Monday March 03 2014, @11:58PM

  by efitton (1077) on Monday March 03 2014, @11:58PM (#10355) Homepage

  The devaluation of the leaf will mean that we will have to burn some forest down.

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  • Re:3D Printers (Score: 1) by clone141166 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:06AM

    by clone141166 (59) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:06AM (#10381)

    That is why I keep all my money in BitBark.

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