Beating 'hearts on a chip' will travel to space on SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship tonight
Tissue-based models of the human heart are being sent to the International Space Station.
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Tissue-based models of the human heart are being sent to the International Space Station.
As per Nasa, the team will conduct 'new and exciting scientific research' to prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and benefit life on Earth
E-Mail PHILADELPHIA--Scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the molecular causes of a congenital form of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), an often-fatal heart disorder. This inherited form of DCM -- which affects at least several thousand people in the United States at any one time and often causes sudden death or progressive heart failure -- is one of multiple congenital disorders known to be caused by inherited mutations in a gene called LMNA. The LMNA gene is active in most cell types, and researchers have not understood why LMNA mu...