Preventing Heart Attacks With an Electromechanical Hug

Korean researchers recently demonstrated how wire wrap could stop rapid heart beat and restore cardiac electrical function for a rat's heart. The shape-conforming mesh is constructed of silver nanowires embedded in a rubber polymer. It was designed to conform to different hearts' unique anatomy. (Read the full Qmed story.)

Other researchers including the flexible electronics pioneer John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have also been working on the concept of an "electric sock" around the heart to better deliver therapy. 

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