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Mending hearts with tissue engineering

Video of a patch of engineered heart tissue "beating" in response to electrical field stimulation. The tissue was created by culturing rat heart cells on an accordion-like honeycomb scaffold developed by MIT researchers. Original magnification = 100x. Photo Credit G.C. Engelmayr Jr., MIT

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