First (durable) mechanical heart.

[L i am]

I thought mechanical are a thing But apparently they are not durable and the valves make noises therefore current mechanical hears are very noisy By durable that means the patient can leave the hospital and can take the place of or improve upon a normal heart permanently a guy here had it fitted and after ore that 100 days living at home The trials have started a while ago. And it is due for being on the market in 2 to three years

Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation

A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

(www.abc.net.au)

[Mike Amos]

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...........