The cockroach is at the heart of successful Indian research by scientists who are developing an artificial heart. Using the roach’s heart as a model, the new prototype promises to be much cheaper and more reliable for implantation in humans than models currently in use.
The key to the new heart involves the insect’s unique breathing system. The cockroach is blessed with thirteen blood-pumping chambers while humans only have four. When a chamber falls in a human heart, it usually leads to a fatal cardiac arrest but this new one with 13 chambers can keep pumping even if one breaks down.
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Source: WeirdAsiaNews.com
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