{"id":23537,"date":"2016-03-15T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cyborg-heart-patch-combines-electronics-and-living-tissue"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:07","slug":"cyborg-heart-patch-combines-electronics-and-living-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cyborg-heart-patch-combines-electronics-and-living-tissue","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cyborg heart patch\u2019 combines electronics and living tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyborg-heart-patch-combines-electronics-and-living-tissue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the latest inventions out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/08\/23\/electrical-potential-data-theft\/\">Tel Aviv University<\/a> can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/04\/worlds-first-remote-heart-surgery-completed-in-leicester-uk\/\">patch up<\/a> broken hearts. We\u2019re talking about the real organs here, especially those damaged by myocardial infarction or heart attack. A team from the Israeli university <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-03\/afot-ccp031416.php\">created<\/a> a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmat\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nmat4590.html\">cyborg heart patch<\/a>\u201d that combines both living tissue and electronic components to replace the damaged parts of the organ. \u201cIt\u2019s very science fiction, but it\u2019s already here,\u201d says one of its creators, Prof. Tal Dvir. \u201c[W]e expect it to move cardiac research forward in a big way.\u201d The patch can contract and expand like real heart tissue can, but it can do much, much more than that.<\/p>\n<p>The electronic components allow doctors to remotely monitor their patients\u2019 condition from afar. A physician could log into a computer and see if the implant is working as intended. If he senses that something\u2019s amiss, he could release drugs to, say, regulate inflammation or fix the lack of oxygen. That sounds dangerous to us, since computers can be hacked. But the researchers are aiming to develop the patch further so it can regulate itself with no human intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Dvir warns that the \u201cpractical realization of the technology may take some time.\u201d For now, those suffering from cardiovascular diseases will have to rely on current treatment methods. The team is still in the midst of refining their cyborg heart patch. Plus, they\u2019re looking at how to create bionic brain and spinal cord tissues using what they\u2019ve learned so far to treat neurological conditions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/15\/cyborg-heart-patch-tel-aviv-university\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/15\/cyborg-heart-patch-tel-aviv-university\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the latest inventions out of Tel Aviv University can patch up broken hearts. We\u2019re talking about the real organs here, especially those damaged by myocardial infarction or heart attack. A team from the Israeli university created a \u201ccyborg heart patch\u201d that combines both living tissue and electronic components to replace the damaged parts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,1694,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-electronics","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68013,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions\/68013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}