Dan Baum of PopSci:
"This 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it.
As many as five million Americans suffer some form of heart failure, but only about 2,000 hearts a year become available for transplant. The obvious solution to that scarcity is to build an artificial heart, and how hard could that be?"
Finally doctors have come up with a functional artificial heart.
Researchers at Kumamoto University believe that the cure for HIV/AIDS might lie in trapping the virus in host cells and letting them die through apoptosis.
This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the genes that control the circadian rhythm, or the body’s natural day-night cycle.
According to the South China Morning Post. A robot has been able to perform dental surgery all on its own. This was a result of a collaborative effort.
With the amount of heart disease related problems growing in our modern society something like this is truly needed. Sure, it might be the person's fault for bad diet/exercise in some cases but if they get this done right it could save millions of lives.....
....and make the inventors a fortune.