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Jun. 10, 2011
Lab-Raised Heart
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Build them the right home and cells will organize themselves into a tissue. Bioengineer Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, of Columbia University, focuses on designing environments to grow hearts, bones and blood vessels. We stopped by to see a little piece of beating heart muscle they grew in the lab and keep in an incubator in the corner.
Additional footage courtesy of Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic's Lab.
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