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Patching Hearts
By Courtney Humphries - Monday, November 03, 2008
This video shows a patch of engineered heart tissue "beating" in response to electrical field stimulation. Rat heart cells are embedded in a scaffold that mimics the properties of the heart.
Video by George Engelmayr - Read the Article

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