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UH Engineers Partner on New Artificial Heart Technology

Caption: 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.

Credit: Thomas Shea

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