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Published online 23 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.775
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Beating heart tissue grown in lab
Test-tube recipe produces three types of cardiac cell.
An international team of cell biologists has created heart tissue — complete with beat — in a test tube. The tissue culture contains three distinct cell types, each of which is important in functioning hearts, and is thus a step towards the advent of lab-grown heart-tissue transplants.
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