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1,000 Stitches by Hand: Why Heart Valves Still Need the Human Touch?

What if the device keeping your heart beating was entirely man-made? Inside a high-precision manufacturing facility in Singapore, trained mostly women operators sit behind microscopes, carefully stitching delicate heart-valve tissue by hand. A single valve can require around 1,000 stitches, with every movement demanding exceptional precision, judgement and months of training. For Jai Arora, who…

1,000 Stitches by Hand: Why Heart Valves Still Need the Human Touch?

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