Artificial Organs News Archive

French artificial heart maker CARMAT receives a financial boost

Longevity Technology - 16-Oct-2023

Aims to reach an annual production capacity of 500 artificial hearts

CARMAT raised €40.5 million - set to resume the artificial heart production

Longevity Technology - 21-Apr-2022

Aeson could prolong lives of patients awaiting a human heart transplant

Clinical experience in artificial heart with autoregulation of blood flow

pharmaphorum - 15-Jul-2021

New heart replacement therapy for patients with end-stage biventricular failure

New way to rebuild cartilage tissue for fixing injuries

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) - 19-Oct-2020

Cartilage tissue engineered using magnetic field and hydrogels

Electronic blood vessels could replace damaged arteries

IEEE Spectrum - 06-Oct-2020

Not just replacing, but enhancing - could include sensors and drug reservoirs

The first hydrogel that has mechanical properties of cartilage

ScienceAlert - 05-Jul-2020

Could someday replace just the damaged cartilage, instead of having to remove entire knee joint

Experts create nephron-like device that mimics kidney ion transport

Singularity Hub - 03-Jun-2020

Implantable artificial kidneys brought one step closer with this tech

Synthetic red blood cells function similarly to natural ones

ACS Publications - 03-Jun-2020

Did not seem to cause any toxicity in mouse model

"Cruelty-free" preclinical drug testing is possible

Wyss Institute - 27-Jan-2020

Body-on-Chips platform is created by connecting 10 organ-chips to mimic normal human blood flow

Clinical trials to test a dual-hormone artificial pancreas system

Verdict - 23-May-2019

Fully automated diabetes care for people living with type 1 diabetes in the future

FDA approves bionic pancreas for home-use study

Diabetes.co.uk - 22-May-2018

iLet uses an algorithm to known when to deliver insulin, glucagon or a combination of both

Bionic sphincter controller close to human trial phase

Sun Sentinel - 09-Apr-2018

Precision Medical Devices have developed the Flow Control Device.

Artificial eye mimics blinking

Science News - 20-Feb-2018

University of Pennsylvania used human cells to build a model of the surface of the eye.

Flocks of nanorobots could form artificial muscles

Chemistry World - 07-Feb-2018

DNA nanobots can already perform complex tasks.

Woman with artificial heart carries pump in backpack

Metro - 31-Dec-2017

Selwa Hussain is a second-ever person in Britain to be given an artificial heart.

Engineers Hack Cell Biology to Create 3-D Shapes from Living Tissue

UCSF - 28-Dec-2017

Many of the complex folded shapes of mammalian body plans can be recreated with simple instructions.

Soft Gel Could Keep Artificial Organs Alive

Popular Mechanics - 13-Dec-2017

University of Fribourg report a new bio-inspired power source.

DIY artificial pancreas gains JDRF support

MobiHealthNews - 18-Oct-2017

JDRF has announced a new initiative to provide funds for o build artificial pancreas (AP) systems under open protocols.

3D-printed synthetic soft muscle can lift 1000x its weight

Kurzweil Network - 20-Sep-2017

Artificial muscle is three times stronger than natural muscle.

3D-printed silicone heart beats like the real thing

Engadget - 14-Jul-2017

Single solid silicone structure using a 3D-printing, lost-wax casting technique.

Artificial lungs in a backpack may free people with lung failure

New Scientist - 21-Mar-2017

Usual treatment is a large machine that pumps their blood through a gas exchanger to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.

Artificial robotic heart muscles keep pigs alive after heart attacks

WIRED - 18-Jan-2017

Existing mechanical pumps come with significant health risks including infections and causing blood clotting.

$160 million to develop artificial organs

Engadget - 13-Jun-2016

Limited number of donors and organs have to be used within a matter of hours.

Man lives 555 days without a heart

CNN - 10-Jun-2016

9 years ago 25-year-old Stan Larkin suddenly collapsed with undiagnosed arrhythmogenic dysplasia.

New generation of artificial heart

Jerusalem Post - 20-Jan-2016

Heart Mate 3 gives recipient a pulse and blood pressure.

Development of an artificial kidney

Today's Medical Developments - 11-Nov-2015

National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year, $6 million grant to investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to develop an implantable artificial kidney.

Artificial Foam Heart Pumps Fluid

Medical Daily - 15-Oct-2015

Researchers at Cornell University have designed a new type of stretchable “foam” material.

UAE’s first artificial heart operation

The National - 25-Jun-2015

Battery-powered bionic heart fitted to left ventricular. Pump can last up to 10 years but may suffer complications such as anti-coagulation and infection.