{
  "id": 3020011,
  "title": "1,000 Stitches by Hand: Why Heart Valves Still Need the Human Touch?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/1-000-stitches-by-hand-why-heart-valves-still-need-the-human-touch",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-24T12:15:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ETHealthworld",
    "slug": "ethealthworld",
    "url": "https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/1000-stitches-by-hand-why-heart-valves-still-need-the-human-touch/133465682"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}