Can Bioengineering Create a Human Heart?

TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; BIOENGINEERING; SEFTON, Michael; ARTIFICIAL organs; UNIVERSITY of Toronto; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations

ONTARIO; TORONTO (Ont.); CANADA

Looks at research in Ontario aimed at producing a supply of implantable human organs. Question of whether human hearts can be bioengineered for transplantation; Number who died while on a waiting list for a new heart in 1997; Research of Michael V. Sefton, a researcher at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering; Efforts to organize colleagues for a project called Living Implants From Engineering Initiative, or LIFE.