There are numerous issues with mechanical hearts, none of which are dealt with in this or any current heart replacement.
By the time this style of product becomes viable, there ios a greater chance ofT-cell replacements which will be a true replacement but budget requirement mean that these folk continue to spout nonsense about being available now and SOON a permanent solution.
No bucks, no Buck Rodgers is a good analogy.
Does anyone remember the flying car with eight engines and no need for a pilots license of quite a few yonks ago? He was charged for his fraud and sent to prison.
The genetic replacement, grown from the patients own T-cells harvested from bone marrow, will also obviate the need for anti rejection drugs required with donated hearts. This WILL revolutionise the organ replacement world and remove the trade in stolen organse too. Not a pretty subject to research should anyone care to look around the subject.
Consider also, gender reassignment surgery. What would that mean there also?
Legal and political minefield, like the research done by a Moscow sewer department chemist who discovered and refined the properties of bacterial hunting bacteria much like the slug/snail relatives that are carnivores hunting their own kind and available in most gerden centres.
The Moscow chemist? When the wall came down and the USSR became a footnote, western companies went in and took the lot, killed it so they could sell antibiotics costing a bloody fortune.
Our tax money at work...........
