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Matthew
Franchek and Ralph Metcalfe, both mechanical engineering professors
in the Cullen College of Engineering at UH, are part of a biomedical
research team working to create a pulseless total artificial heart.
Pictured
is a device similar to the less-costly, smaller pulseless artificial
heart to be created that will perform the function of both the
right and left ventricles of the heart.
Photos by Thomas Shea
