‘Game Changer’: Albanese Government Pumps $50 Million into World-First Artificial Heart

Published on February 21, 2024

The Albanese Government is spending $50 million (US$32.8 million) to create and sell the world’s most advanced artificial heart, a breakthrough technology poised to halve global deaths from heart failure. The technology mimics a natural heart using advanced magnetic levitation, providing heart failure patients with over ten years of an active lifestyle for the first time. The journey began when Australian inventor Daniel Timms and his plumber dad made heart prototypes from materials bought at Bunnings. Following his dad’s death from heart failure, Mr. Timms vowed to develop the heart as part of his Ph.D. project twenty years ago, and now it is set for its first human trial....

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