That could improve weather prediction. Welcome to the show. Over fifty years ago doctors in the South African city of cape town were the first to perform a radical new operation that revolutionize cardiac medicine a human heart transplant. Nowadays the procedure has grown fairly commonplace but theres a problem there simply arent enough donuts researchers have been racing to develop an artificial alternative and the first could be implanted in humans within three years. Engineers and doctors at the helm holtz institute for Biomedical Engineering in aachen are working on a fully implantable artificial heart for humans they hope it will provide an alternative to conventional Organ Transplants inside a few years the plastic and metal devise ways eight hundred grams tests are ongoing. Looking for that by setting different parameters we can simulate a range of circulatory systems i work up until now has shown that were heading in a very positive direction. Weve tested the heart and it works