Total artificial heart to be ready by 2011: research teamPARIS (AFP) – A fully implantable artificial heart designed to overcome the worldwide shortage of transplant donors will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, the French professor behind the prototype said Monday.Leading heart transplant specialist Alain Carpentier, head of the European research team behind the project, said the prosthetic heart was ready to be manufactured and should be ready for human use “within two and half years”.Biomedical firm Carmat, a start-up funded by the European space and defence group EADS, France’s state innovation agency, venture capital firm Truffle and Carpentier himself, is to produce the heart at a site near…