Body builders: Scientists are combining biological tissue with synthetic materials to create a new class of 'cyborgans'

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When Barney Clark went into hospital, he didn't expect to survive more than a few days. But after receiving the world's first permanent artificial heart transplant in December 1982, the Seattle dentist went on to live for almost four more months. The second patient to receive the Jarvik-7, developed by US doctor and engineer Robert Jarvik, astounded his doctors even further by living for more than a year and a half after his operation.