Harvard’s Artificial Heart Valve Developed to Accommodate Human Growth
A synthetic heart valve, named FibraValve, has been created by researchers at Harvard’s Wass Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The valve has the potential to be used for children as it can be shaped on a microscopic level using a spun-fiber method. The valve’s flaps can be colonized by the patient’s living cells, allowing it to develop and mature with them. The manufacturing process takes only minutes. FibraValve is a follow-up to JetValve, the team’s 2017 artificial heart valve that used many of…
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