The human heart is a complex organ that is quite challenging to study in the lab in real-time. So, you can see why researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley are excited by the creation of tiny, 3D heart chambers with the ability to exist and even beat in a lab dish.
The resulting heart chambers may be miniscule — measuring no more than a couple of hair-widths across— but they hold huge potential for everything from improving our understanding of cardiac development to speeding up drug toxicity screening.
Source & further reading:http://directorsblog.nih.gov/2015/07/21/bioengineering-big-potential-in-tiny-3d-heart-chambers/
The resulting heart chambers may be miniscule — measuring no more than a couple of hair-widths across— but they hold huge potential for everything from improving our understanding of cardiac development to speeding up drug toxicity screening.
Source & further reading:http://directorsblog.nih.gov/2015/07/21/bioengineering-big-potential-in-tiny-3d-heart-chambers/
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