Researchers grew a piece of the human heart, and it actually beats

Researchers have managed to grow a piece of a human heart that actually beats, opening new doors in the study of cardiovascular disease.

Researchers grew a piece of a human heart in a lab. The new model isn’t an entire heart. Instead, it’s a model of the ventricle, one of the heart’s major parts. The researchers say they reverse engineered the millimeter-long vessel. This allowed them to create a model that not only beats like the real deal but it can also pump fluid through it, just like in a living human heart.Being able to study parts of the human heart in-depth has been difficult.

With this new model, though, Sargol Okhovation, a biomedical engineer with the University of Toronto, notes in a

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