{"id":142176,"date":"2022-07-14T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/major-step-forward-in-fabricating-an-artificial-heart-fit-for-a-human"},"modified":"2022-07-14T00:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:22:18","slug":"major-step-forward-in-fabricating-an-artificial-heart-fit-for-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/major-step-forward-in-fabricating-an-artificial-heart-fit-for-a-human","title":{"rendered":"Major step forward in fabricating an artificial heart, fit for a human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-step-forward-in-fabricating-an-artificial-heart-fit-for-a-human.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot heal itself after injury, heart disease\u2014the top cause of mortality in the U.S.\u2014is particularly lethal. For this reason, tissue engineering will be crucial for the development of cardiac medicine, ultimately leading to the mass production of a whole human heart for transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers need to duplicate the distinctive structures that make up the heart in order to construct a human heart from the ground up. This involves re-creating helical geometries, which cause the heart to beat in a twisting pattern. It has long been hypothesized that this twisting action is essential for pumping blood at high rates, but establishing this has proven problematic, in part because designing hearts with various geometries and alignments has proven difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot heal itself after injury, heart disease\u2014the top cause of mortality in the U.S.\u2014is particularly lethal. For this reason, tissue engineering will be crucial for the development of cardiac medicine, ultimately leading to the mass production of a whole human heart for transplant. Researchers need to duplicate the distinctive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}