Developed by Australian biomedical engineer Daniel Timms, the titanium heart device is being used as a stopgap until patients can undergo transplant surgery with a donor heart. BiVACOR A man in ...

An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to survive more than 100 days with an artificial titanium heart as he waited to receive a donor transplant.

Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the titanium-bodied folding Tiruler is made by Hong Kong company MakerPi. First and foremost, the device can indeed serve as a straight-edge ruler ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It looks like it’s straight out of a comic book, but BiVACOR is a real, functioning titanium heart. The metal device is ...

You’d expect a company with the name of Litespeed Titanium to be masters of the lightweight material. And you’d be right. But that didn’t stop Litespeed from seeking out a way to build a lighter, ...

Beating' in his chest was a titanium pump about the size of a fist. For 105 days, the metal organ's levitating propeller pushed blood to the man's lungs and kept him alive as he went about his usual ...

The man, who suffered from severe heart failure, lived with the BiVacor Total Artificial Heart, a blood pump made of titanium, for more than 100 days before receiving a heart transplant on ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...

Johns Hopkins researchers are using AI to speed up and improve titanium alloy manufacturing, unlocking new processing techniques for stronger, high-quality materials. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: ...