<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b00adda-0da3-4f75-a2c2-bfbdd079ce8f/C9E718AA-46A0-45A4-9A28-24A41710BDEB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html" href="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.russiatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html"><DIV class="bigpic"></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html"><P>Indian bioengineers are developing an artificial heart based on that of a cockroach. It promises to be much cheaper and more reliable than models used today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html"><P>Its fail-safe mechanism is its many blood-pumping chambers. Humans only have four and when one of them fails, it leads to a fatal cardiac arrest. The artifical heart though has 13 chambers which, just like the cockroach, can keep pumping healthily if one breaks down.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html">We build up pressure step-by-step in five chambers of the 13. Western model use just one chamber to pressurise blood in one move, and this can be damaging for living cells</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html"><P>The heart, constructed with metal and plastics, took researchers three years to develop. It is now being tested on frog, and the group plan to move onto bigger creatures – a goat – in May.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-03-19/Cockroaches_inspire_new_artificial_hearts.html"><P>If the artificial heart proves to be reliable, it could hit the human market in three years. Developers say it will cost about $US 2,000 – around 30 times less then those used now.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C9E718AA-46A0-45A4-9A28-24A41710BDEB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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