{"id":175996,"date":"2023-11-13T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/this-artificial-heart-uses-magnets-and-spinning-disks-to-reinvent-the-heart"},"modified":"2023-11-13T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T03:23:08","slug":"this-artificial-heart-uses-magnets-and-spinning-disks-to-reinvent-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/this-artificial-heart-uses-magnets-and-spinning-disks-to-reinvent-the-heart","title":{"rendered":"This artificial heart uses magnets and spinning disks to reinvent the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-artificial-heart-uses-magnets-and-spinning-disks-to-reinvent-the-heart2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wait time for a heart transplant is long \u2014 from many months to over a year. Some patients will never get the transplant they need.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers may have come up with an artificial heart solution: a titanium, pumpless, device with spinning magnets \u2014 and it looks nothing like a bonafide heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem: <\/strong>Heart failure affects over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/heart_failure.htm#:~:text=About%206.2%20million%20adults%20in%20the%20United%20States%20have%20heart%20failure.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">six million<\/a> people every year in the U.S., and treatment options are slim. Medication can help, but some people need a heart transplant for a full recovery. Still, donor hearts are hard to come by. The number of people who need a heart far exceeds what\u2019s available. And, donor hearts aren\u2019t one-size-fits-all. The blood type and size need to be just right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wait time for a heart transplant is long \u2014 from many months to over a year. Some patients will never get the transplant they need. But researchers may have come up with an artificial heart solution: a titanium, pumpless, device with spinning magnets \u2014 and it looks nothing like a bonafide heart. The problem: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175996","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}