The big goal is to develop an artificial heart through biotechnology engineering that can work exactly the same as a real heart. However, experts say that there are still many big challenges that must be overcome before the technology can be used by humans.
As it turns out, this is the second experiment of a group of scientists who are members of Georgia Tech. Previously, they had made a robotic stingray made of mouse heart cells.
“Maybe people find it cool. However, this experiment is very important because it provides us with information on the physical and mechanical properties of the heart muscle,” Sung-Jin Park, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, told Insider.
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According to Park, bioengineers want to design artificial human tissues that work well. In fact, better than natural heart tissue. So that people with heart disease can be cured using the patient’s own stem cells.
“The artificial heart will eventually be able to replace a deformed heart in a child, for example,” explains Kit Parker, a Harvard bioengineer at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Making an artificial heart turned out to be very complicated. This is because the heart and brain work independently in carrying out their functions.
A series of electrical signals triggers the heart muscle to contract and pump blood.
What the team of scientists did was not try to replicate the natural heart structure. “But we engineer a better version of the human heart,” said Park.
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