Heart-on-a-chip beats a steady rhythym

The growing number of biological structures being grown on chips in various laboratories around the world is rapidly replicating the entire gamut of major human organs. Now one of the most important of all – a viable functioning heart – has been added to that list by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) who have taken adult stem cells and grown a lattice of pulsing human heart tissue on a silicon device... Continue Reading Heart-on-a-chip beats a steady rhythym

Section: Medical

Tags: Heart, Microfluidic, Stem Cells, UC Berkeley

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