Franziska Schmid studied German language and literature at the University of Bern. During and after her studies, she worked as a freelance journalist for the Berner Zeitung and has now been working at ETH Zurich since February 2007.
It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial heart: to mimic its natural model as closely as possible. The silicone heart has been developed by N...
ETH researchers from the Functional Materials Laboratory have developed a silicone heart that beats almost like a human heart. In collaboration with colleagues from the Product Developmen...