Good news for lab animals who have had heart attacks: Harvard researchers have grown a strip of beating mouse heart muscle from embryonic stem cells, according to the Globe’s White Coat Notes blog. The breakthrough will be detailed tomorrow in the journal Science.
Sure, it’s no human ear growing out of a mouse’s back, but it gets stem cell research that much closer to making replaceable parts for humans, or making a heart like a carburator.
Not to be outdone by the unnerving motion of a robot made from “jammable slurry,” one of the researchers compares the heart-muscle strip to a “fruit roll-up.” Delicious.
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: fruit roll-ups, Harvard, Science, stem cells
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