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flag An Australian engineer's pipe-made artificial heart kept a patient alive outside hospital for 100+ days, but he warns lack of national funding risks losing the innovation.

flag An Australian engineer, Dr. Daniel Timms, has developed a revolutionary artificial heart using Bunnings pipes, inspired by his father’s death from heart failure. flag The BiVacor device, made of titanium and resembling a 1974 Datsun engine, has kept a Sydney patient alive and living normally for over 100 days outside a hospital. flag Though U.S. funding, including a major donation from Texas businessman "Mattress Mack," helped advance the project, Timms says Australian government support could have kept the innovation home. flag He urges increased investment in the $24 billion Medical Research Future Fund, which allocates only about $650 million annually. flag Timms believes sustained national backing is key to making heart failure a survivable condition and ensuring breakthroughs remain accessible in Australia.

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