{"id":74016,"date":"2017-12-01T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-created-a-silicon-beating-heart"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:05","slug":"scientists-have-created-a-silicon-beating-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-created-a-silicon-beating-heart","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have created a silicon beating heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-created-a-silicon-beating-heart3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The soft artificial heart was created from silicone using a 3D-printing, lost-wax casting technique; it weighs 390 grams and has a volume of 679 cm3. \u201cIt is a silicone monoblock with complex inner structure,\u201d explains Cohrs. This artificial heart has a right and a left ventricle, just like a real human heart, though they are not separated by a septum but by an additional chamber. This chamber is in- and deflated by pressurized air and is required to pump fluid from the blood chambers, thus replacing the muscle contraction of the human heart.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-created-a-silicon-beating-heart\/?utm_content=bufferc0cc8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-creat...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soft artificial heart was created from silicone using a 3D-printing, lost-wax casting technique; it weighs 390 grams and has a volume of 679 cm3. \u201cIt is a silicone monoblock with complex inner structure,\u201d explains Cohrs. This artificial heart has a right and a left ventricle, just like a real human heart, though they are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74016","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74040,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74016\/revisions\/74040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}