Beating Heart Created In Laboratory: Method May Revolutionize How Organ Tissues Are Developed
bioengineering | biotechnology | cardiovascular | developmental biology | heart | regeneration | regenerative medicine | technology | tissue engineering
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The research will be published online in the January 13 issue of Nature Medicine. [...]
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