Scientists make artificial fish powered by human heart cells
It's a roundabout way to study what it takes to grow a human heart from scratch.
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It's a roundabout way to study what it takes to grow a human heart from scratch.
With its tail flipping rhythmically from side to side, this strange synthetic fish scoots around in its salt and glucose solution, using the same power as our beating hearts.
Scientists created an artificial fish partially made of human-heart muscle cells. Michael Rosnach, Keel Yong Lee, Sung-Jin Park, Kevin Kit Parker
Tiny, robotic fish powered by human heart cells suggest that scientists are getting closer to their goal of building replacement hearts from living tissue.
Insights from a synthetic fish built from plastic and gelatine and powered by human cardiac cells might one day be useful for treating heart disease