The scientists have been working for centuries on trying to make artificial organs so that they cut the waiting list of the expecting patients, and also reduce the chances of the rejection of the organ even after the proper precautions and blood typing by the patient. The latest innovation is the formation of a human heart. This human heart is made by using soft artificial muscles and sensors and then coated in lab-grown human tissue. A highly scientific and futuristic technique.

This groundbreaking innovation is named as the ‘HybridHeart’ which was made by Dutch scientists in the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (UMC). The scientists are eager to bring it into human use and aim on trying it on animals within three years. And put one inside a human by 2028. The lead researcher on this project Professor Jolanda Kluin said that there is a need for radical new solutions. The scientific community is decades away from building a living heart from a patient’s own cells if they will ever be able to do it is in question.

Talking about the inspiration, the researcher said that some three years ago she saw a picture in a Dutch newspaper. The picture was of a soft robotic starfish, and it could move and swim like a living starfish. That is when the inspiration struck her. She saw the potential for merging the benefits of biology with the power of soft robotics, for a hybrid heart, for the first-ever solution for end-stage heart failure. On the technique, she explains that soft robotic artificial cardiac muscles precisely mimic the human heart, so the hybrid heart really beats like a real heart. And it is lined by the patient’s own cells preventing clotting, infection, and reaction. The energy transfer is wireless so that the patient experiences real freedom.

Personal experience and loss the reasons that motivated the professor to take the chances and work on the project. Having lost her father to a heart failure, her efforts doubled, lest some other families go through the same pain and trauma of losing someone dear. It was hard to see her father knowing that there was nothing doctors could do.

The project is getting more and more recognition worldwide. The cyber heart is one of four projects that has been shortlisted to win £30 million ($39m) in funding from the British Heart Foundation. Along with that, we have various other projects who aim to do the same, or along the same lines as the worldwide initiative, called the Big Beat Challenge. It was set to try and find ‘transformational solutions to tackle the world’s biggest killer’. Not only this,’genetic cure’ for inherited conditions and a ‘google map’ of atherosclerosis to help detect and develop immunotherapies against heart attack and stroke.

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