Mount Sinai's Cardiovascular Research Institute is sending bioengineered human heart muscle cells and micro-tissues into space for the first time on NASA's 29 th SpaceX commercial resupply services ...
(a) Schematic of the microfluidic device including the cell chamber (red), media channels (blue) and stimulation electrodes (dark grey). (b) The assembled microfluidic platform. (c) Detailed view ...
image: Researchers from the University of Tsukuba showed that cardiac scar tissue (fibroblasts) can be directly reprogrammed to heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) in mice. By treating mice post-heart ...