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giantblackcock:

A donor heart beating in a mechanical system which keeps it warm, oxygenated, with nutrient enriched blood pumping through.

I’m too fascinated to not to reblog this again

ok, thats really cool

I’m not sure whether to feel fascinated or a tad disgusted-

Reblogging anyway.

The new technology is remarkable. 

This is so wicked cool

• Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. 
• Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You’re using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard—twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting.