Advanced Maturation of Human Cardiac Tissue Grown From Pluripotent Stem Cells

Author(s): 
Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard, Stephen P. Ma, Keith Yeager, Timothy Chen, LouJin Song, Dario Sirabella, Kumi Morikawa, Diogo Teles, Masayuki Yazawa & Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Publication Type: 
Original Research Article
Name of Journal, Book, etc.: 
Nature
Year: 
2018

Drs. Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard, Stephen P. Ma, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, and colleagues demonstrated that adult-like human cardiac tissue can be grown from hiPS-CMs in fibrin hydrogel subjected to stretch and auxotonic contractions in just four weeks of in vitro culture. [04April2018 Nature]

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