Today, the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota East Bank campus in Minneapolis serves as the hub for the university’s medical school. But before that, when construction finished in 1954, it was a hospital. Doctors performed open heart surgeries inside. In 1958, Earl Bakken, founder of Medtronic, created the first pacemaker there. Now, the University of Minnesota collaborates with Medtronic to reanimate human and animal hearts on the fir…
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