Biomedical Engineering

University of Michigan researchers develop new approach to growing heart muscle

Published in Cardiovascular Business Week, January 9th, 2007

It looks, contracts and responds almost like natural heart muscle - even though it was grown in the lab.

And it brings scientists another step closer to the goal of creating replacement parts for damaged human hearts, or eventually growing an entirely new heart from just a spoonful of loose heart cells. University of Michigan researchers recently reported significant progress in growing bioengineered heart muscle, or BEHM, with organized cells, capable of generating pulsating forces and reacting to stimulation more like real muscle than ever before. The three-dimensional tissue was grown using an innovative technique that is faster than others that have been tried in...

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Source: Cardiovascular Business Week (2007-01-09)

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