A Human in vitro Platform for Evaluating Pharmacologic Strategies (IMAGE)

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A Human in vitro Platform for Evaluating Pharmacologic Strategies

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The human heart's energy needs and functions are difficult to reproduce in other animals; one new system looks to circumvent these issues and provide a functional view of how different treatments can help ailing cells in the heart following oxygen and nutrient deprivations. Researchers have unveiled a new silicon chip that holds human lab-grown heart muscle cells for assessing the effectiveness of new drugs. They discuss their work in this week's APL Bioengineering. This image shows a human in vitro platform for evaluating pharmacologic strategies in cardiac ischemia.

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