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How Scientists Make Heart Cells

CDI scientists explain how they made David Ewing Duncan’s beating heart cells in a petri dish and why it’s a significant feat.

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David Ewing Duncan

David Ewing Duncan Guest Contributor

David Ewing Duncan is a television and radio correspondent and producer, an entrepreneur, and an award-winning, best-selling author of nine books published in 21 languages. He is curator and CEO of Arc Fusion… More and a health strategist in residence at IDEO. He is a Daily Beast columnist and chief correspondent of NPR Talk’s Biotech Nation. David writes for the New York Times, the Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, Fortune, Wired, and many others. He was a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition and special correspondent and producer for ABC’s Nightline and 20/20. His latest books are When I’m 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens If It Succeeds and Experimental Man. He is the founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley.

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