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Beating ‘heart on a chip’ developed by Canadian scientists

March 11, 2016

CBC.ca | Mar. 11, 2016

Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Prof. Mil­i­ca Radis­ic and her team have devel­oped a way to grow swatch­es of liv­ing heart tis­sue — con­tain­ing mus­cle and “blood ves­sels” — that beat rhyth­mi­cal­ly like a real heart. Read more…