Hundreds of thousands of people could soon get off the transplant waiting list as French doctors are celebrating the installation of a revolutionary artificial heart into a 75-year-old patient, paving the way for long-lasting robotic substitutes. The heart, which spent 25 years in the making and was produced by the French company Carmat, is somewhat of a technological marvel. The key differences with... 

Professor Alain Carpentier has unveiled the device three decades after the world’s first human heart transplant. The French doctor has described it as the world’s first fully implantable artificial heart and says it could save the lives of thousands of heart patients, many of whom die while waiting for a heart donation. The revolutionary life-size mixture of animal tissue, titanium and...