A new approach to growing heart muscle: U-M team reports success of rapid 3-D cell-growth technique that produces pulsing, organized tissue

Source: University of Michigan Health System
Date: December 8, 2006

Summary:

It looks, contracts and responds almost like natural heart muscle – even though it was grown in the lab. And it brings scientists another step closer to the goal of creating replacement parts for damaged human hearts, or eventually growing an entirely new heart from just a spoonful of loose heart cells.