Muscles on-a-chip provide insight into cardiac stem cell therapies
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Published in Journal of Cell Biology · View the paper (DOI)
Researchers developed a muscle-on-a-chip model that demonstrates how cardiac stem cell therapies can fail due to inefficient force transmission between new and old heart cells. The study suggests that mechanical forces are not transmitted properly, leading to the formation of cellular adhesions that dissipate force to surrounding tissues.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Muscles on-a-chip provide insight into cardiac stem cell therapies Rockefeller University Press · Feb 8, 2016 · first to report
- Testing the power of stem cell-derived heart muscle cells Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard · Feb 16, 2016