Researchers have created an artificial, silicone heart to help combat the shortage of donor hearts. The silicone heart has been developed by Nicholas Cohrs, a doctoral student in the group led by Wendelin Stark, Professor of Functional Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich. It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial heart: to mimic its natural model as closely as possible. Franziska Schmid, writer at ETH Zurich says that this artificial heart has a right and a left ventricle, just like a real human heart, though they are not separated by a septum but by an additional chamber. Read more