Developed by Australian biomedical engineer Daniel Timms, the titanium heart device is being used as a stopgap until patients can undergo transplant surgery with a donor heart. BiVACOR A man in ...

Beating' in his chest was a titanium pump about the size of a fist. For 105 days, the metal organ's levitating propeller pushed blood to the man's lungs and kept him alive as he went about his usual ...