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Scientists create first 3-D synchronized-beating heart tissue

08-Feb-2017

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York University has created in vitro 3D heart tissue made from three different types of cardiac cells.

No external scaffold was used.

Will allow better and earlier drug testing.

Created at a millimeter scale, but larger versions could be made.

The study was published in the Scientific Reports journal.

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Muhammad N. Yousaf

Professor in Department of Chemistry at York University and CEO at OrganoLinX Inc.

Scientific Reports

Scientific Journal providing information from all areas of the natural sciences.

York University

Public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Regenerative Medicine