Dr Daniel Timms: Artificial Heart inventor on a world first survival on Australian soil - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

An Australian patient has this week survived100 days with an artificial heart.

The success is a world first and is another step towards decreasing the number of deaths caused by cardiac failure.

Australian engineer Daniel Timms invented the ground-breaking artificial heart and talks to Ryan Bridge about how the heart works, how he invented it, how its powered, and what the development means for medicine.

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