Ghost heart has a tiny beat

jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

This is a significant research that it will help thousands of people escape form cardiac tissue. Rat hearts, stripped of their cells by detergents, have been used as a scaffold to engineer a bioartificial heart, which can amazingly pump a little like the original organ. One day, it will be used to repair heart damage or even generate new hearts for transplantation.

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