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I wrote The Exquisite Machine to make people think about their heart anew, with a greater sense of wonder and awe. I’ve been working to understand the heart for more than 40 years and every time we get a better way to see it close up, or an advance in how we can manipulate cells, there are new revelations about this incredible organ. Although, of course, our aim is to do something helpful for heart disease , it can be frustrating only to focus on what goes wrong, rather than celebrate how often it goes right! The 500 million years of evolution that shaped the heart has created something that engineers can only envy – in fact, its exquisitely precise and beautiful construction is one of the biggest barriers to our attempts to repair or replace it. Early ideas about the heart began by casting it as the seat of emotion . This rather fell out of favour as we scientists took over and reclassified it as a giant muscle. But now we have come full circle, and started to realise that the hea

Technology is changing the way we view our health. New innovations allow us to track and improve our wellbeing, both mentally and physically. Gadgets are being created with a range of incredible functions, helping with anything from exercise recovery to getting good quality sleep . There’s a lot out there we love, but we’ve narrowed it down to the following picks. Can’t get enough of new tech? Check out our list of the 49 coolest new gadgets in 2022 . MINIMI Bluetooth Smart Body Scale This high-tech piece of kit is much more than just a weighing scale. It’s able to display 14 key metrics, including less common measurements such as hydration, visceral fat, bone mass, metabolic age and more. It’s able to provide an overall “Body Score” as an overview of your statistics. It synchronises with an app to give a breakdown of the composition, complete with data reports and graphs. The scale looks beyond weight as the main metric for determining health. It helps measure what you eat,