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Pulsing Heart of Medtronic’s Relationship with the UMN

Medtronic supports the U of M’s Visible Heart Lab in exchange for the chance to test devices on donated human hearts.

Go inside the one-of-a-kind Visible Heart® Lab

At the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart® Laboratories, Medtronic scientists and engineers are partnering with researchers to test heart devices and prototypes inside beating human hearts.

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"Inside the lab that’s the beating heart of Medtronic’s product pipeline" At the UMN, researchers keep hearts alive outside the body for hours. Medtronic uses them to develop blockbuster devices.