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Wrapped around the heart

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An elastic membrane cast around a three-dimensional printed model of a specific heart allows diverse aspects of cardiac function to be monitored and modified, and paves the way to new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

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Figure 1: Multifunctional monitoring.

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  1. Colleen E. Clancy and Yang K. Xiang are in the Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616-8636, USA.,

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